The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award presented by Middle East Monitor. The award began in 2012 and aims to honor the best new books in English about any aspect of Palestine.
All Winners
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi | They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom | |
| 2023 | Dareen Tatour | I Sing From the Window of Exile | |
| 2023 | Tahrir Hamdi | Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity | |
| 2023 | Nadim Bawalsa | Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 | |
| 2023 | Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi | Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir | |
| 2022 | Mosab Abu Toha | Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza | |
| 2022 | Saree Makdsi | Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial | |
| 2022 | Ashjan Ajour | Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body | |
| 2022 | Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi | Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine | |
| 2022 | Mohammad Sabaaneh | Power born of dreams: my story is palestine | |
| 2022 | Lynn Welchman | Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization | |
| 2022 | Heba Hayek | Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies | |
| 2021 | Timothy Brennan | Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said | |
| 2021 | Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick | Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics | |
| 2021 | Erik Skare | A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east | |
| 2021 | Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey | Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands | |
| 2020 | Susan Abulhawa | Against the Loveless World | |
| 2020 | Rashid Khalidi | The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 | |
| 2020 | Nathalie Handal | Life in a Country Album | |
| 2020 | Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood | There Where You Are Not | |
| 2019 | Isabella Hammad | The Parisian | |
| 2019 | Noura Erakat | Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine | |
| 2019 | Andrew Ross | Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel | |
| 2019 | Nabil Anani | Palestine, Land and People | |
| 2019 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Where the Bird Disappeared | |
| 2018 | Reja-e Busailah | In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood | |
| 2018 | Colin Anderson | Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution | |
| 2018 | Maha Nassar | Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world | |
| 2018 | Salim Tamari | The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine | |
| 2017 | Ella Shohat | On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements | |
| 2017 | Bjorn Brenner | Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance | |
| 2017 | Laila Parsons | The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 | |
| 2017 | Samia Halaby | Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre | |
| 2017 | Ilan Pappe | The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories | |
| 2016 | Anaheed Al-Hardan | Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities | |
| 2016 | Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi | I Remember My Name | |
| 2016 | Yasir Suleiman | Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora | |
| 2016 | Lorenzo Kamel | Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times | |
| 2015 | Jean-Pierre Filiu | Gaza: A History | |
| 2015 | Lena Jayyusi | Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation | |
| 2015 | Elias Sanbar | The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day | |
| 2014 | Ali Abunimah | The Battle for Justice in Palestine | |
| 2014 | Diana Allan | Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile | |
| 2014 | Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar | The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 | |
| 2013 | Rashid Khalidi | Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East | |
| 2013 | Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh | Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home | |
| 2012 | Ben White | Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy | |
| 2012 | Sara Roy | Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector | |
| 2012 | Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi | The Hour of Sunlight |
References
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- "They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "I Sing From the Window of Exile". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Power born of dreams: my story is palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Against the Loveless World". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Life in a Country Album". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "There Where You Are Not". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Parisian". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Where the Bird Disappeared". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "I Remember My Name". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Gaza: A History". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Battle for Justice in Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- "The Hour of Sunlight". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.