Judges

Professor Nur Masalha

Nur Masalha is a Palestinian writer and historian. He is currently a Member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London. Previously, Masalha was a Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion...

Sawad Hussain

Sawad Hussain is an award-winning Arabic-English literary translator. She co-teaches a workshop on translating Arabic comics at UK secondary schools via the collective Shadow Heroes. Her recent translations include the Palestinian resistance...

Dr Afaf Jabiri

Afaf Jabiri is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. From 2013- 2017, she held the posts of Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS and Fellow at the LSE Gender Institute. Her research focuses on gender in...

Feras Abu Helal

Feras Abu Helal is a researcher specialising in Middle Eastern affairs. He holds a Master's Degree in Middle East Politics, Islam, Conflicts and Nationalism from Birkbeck College, University of London. His studies and reports appear in...

Ashjan Ajour

Ashjan Ajour completed her PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019 and she is the 2022 incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brown University in the United States. Her research interests and teaching experience are situated...

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
  • I Sing From the Window of Exile
  • Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity
  • Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948
  • Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
  • Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
  • Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
  • Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
  • Power born of dreams: my story is palestine
  • Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
  • Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
  • Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said
  • Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics
  • A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east
  • Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands
  • Against the Loveless World
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • Life in a Country Album
  •  There Where You Are Not