2012

The Hour of Sunlight

2012 Winner
The Hour of Sunlight

Publisher:

Nation

Published:

September 2010
As a teenager in Palestine, Sami al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. When one of his friends was killed by a bomb they tried to make, al Jundi was sentenced to ten years in prison. In an Israeli jail, Al Jundi was welcomed...

I Was Born There, I Was Born Here

I Was Born There, I Was Born Here

Author(s):

Mourid Barghouti

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Published:

November 2012
In 1998 Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories. Barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of Palestinian history and life - the pleasure of coffee, arriving at just the right moment and as an exile, the importance of...

Walking Palestine

Walking Palestine

Author(s):

Stephan Szepesi

Publisher:

Signal Books Ltd

Published:

May 2012
With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is an activity little associated with the West Bank. But Stefan Szepesi’s book wanders well off the beaten track in Palestine exploring its...

I Shall Not Hate

I Shall Not Hate

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Published:

February 2012
I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's account of his extraordinary life. Abuelaish lived in Gaza but worked in Israel as a physician. He is a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women and the father whose...

Shake Off

Shake Off

Author(s):

Mischa Hiller

Publisher:

Telegram Books

Published:

February 2011
The is a novel about Michel, an undercover PLO operative. He is forced to go on the run when he takes possession of a package smuggled out of the Occupied Territories and linked to an assassination in Berlin – a package that both the...

Global Palestine

Global Palestine

Author(s):

John Collins

Publisher:

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published:

December 2011
Global Palestine provides a unique perspective on the nature and extent of the rights owed to Palestinians. John Collins assumes three overlapping premises: that Palestine is the site of an ongoing project of settler colonization; Palestine's...

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