Palestine Book Award

The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award^[1] presented by Middle East Monitor.^[2] The award was inaugurated in 2012 to honor the best English -language books on the subject of Palestine.^[3][4][5]

All Winners

Year	Author(s)	Title	Ref
2023	Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi	They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom	[6]
2023	Dareen Tatour	I Sing From the Window of Exile	[7]
2023	Tahrir Hamdi	Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity	[8]
2023	Nadim Bawalsa	Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948	[9]
2023	Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi	Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir	[10]
2022	Mosab Abu Toha	Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza	[11]
2022	Saree Makdsi	Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial	[12]
2022	Ashjan Ajour	Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body	[13]
2022	Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi	Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine	[14]
2022	Mohammad Sabaaneh	Power born of dreams: my story is palestine	[15]
2022	Lynn Welchman	Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization	[16]
2022	Heba Hayek	Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies	[17]
2021	Timothy Brennan	Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said	[18]
2021	Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick	Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics	[19]
2021	Erik Skare	A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east	[20]
2021	Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey	Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands	[21]
2020	Susan Abulhawa	Against the Loveless World	[22]
2020	Rashid Khalidi	The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017	[23]
2020	Nathalie Handal	Life in a Country Album	[24]
2020	Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood	There Where You Are Not	[25]
2019	Isabella Hammad	The Parisian	[26]
2019	Noura Erakat	Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine	[27]
2019	Andrew Ross	Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel	[28]
2019	Nabil Anani	Palestine, Land and People	[29]
2019	Ghassan Zaqtan	Where the Bird Disappeared	[30]
2018	Reja-e Busailah	In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood	[31]
2018	Colin Anderson	Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution	[32]
2018	Maha Nassar	Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world	[33]
2018	Salim Tamari	The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine	[34]
2017	Ella Shohat	On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements	[35]
2017	Bjorn Brenner	Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance	[36]
2017	Laila Parsons	The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948	[37]
2017	Samia Halaby	Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre	[38]
2017	Ilan Pappe	The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories	[39]
2016	Anaheed Al-Hardan	Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities	[40]
2016	Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi	I Remember My Name	[41]
2016	Yasir Suleiman	Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora	[42]
2016	Lorenzo Kamel	Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times	[43]
2015	Jean-Pierre Filiu	Gaza: A History	[44]
2015	Lena Jayyusi [ar]	Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation	[45]
2015	Elias Sanbar	The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day	[46]
2014	Ali Abunimah	The Battle for Justice in Palestine	[47]
2014	Diana Allan	Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile	[48]
2014	Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar	The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948	[49]
2013	Rashid Khalidi	Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East	[50]
2013	Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh	Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home	[51]
2012	Ben White	Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy	[52]
2012	Sara Roy	Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector	[53]
2012	Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi	The Hour of Sunlight	[54]