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Elias Sanbar

Elias Sanbar is a Palestinian historian, poet, and essayist who has taught in Lebanon and at Princeton University. He is currently the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO.

2023 Winners

Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity

All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as...
I Sing From the Window of Exile

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour shot to worldwide attention when she was jailed in 2016 for the...
Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir

Ibrahim Muhawi (Translator), Hussein Barghouthi (author) Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi...
Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth...
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers...

Latest Book Reviews

Out of Time: The Collected Stories of Samira Azzam

It takes a certain level of skill to encapsulate the plight of an oppressed people, the nostalgia...
Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948

Contrary to the commonly-held belief, the issue of Palestinian national identity, statelessness...
I Sing From the Window of Exile

Defiance, nostalgia and politics emanate from Dareen Tatour’s bilingual poetry collection, I...
Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir

The Palestinian return is never as envisaged. For Palestinian poet and author Hussein Barghouthi,...

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