2016

I Remember My Name

2016 winner
I Remember My Name

Publisher:

Novum Publishing

Published:

April 2016
I remember my name is a moving collection of poems by three Palestinian poets whose poetic vision is at once Palestinian and universal. It is a tribute to Arabic literature and to the striving for a common justice and...

Bitter Almonds

Bitter Almonds

Author(s):

Lilas Taha

Publisher:

Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (formerly known as Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing)

Published:

August 2015
Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos and compelled by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold onto: a love that drives him. Nadia is young and idealistic. Her attempts to be oblivious to...

Mapping My Return: A Palestinian memoir

Mapping My Return: A Palestinian memoir

Author(s):

Salman Abu Sitta

Publisher:

The American University in Cairo Press
In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withdrawal from Palestine and...

A Curious Land: Stories from Home

A Curious Land: Stories from Home

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press

Published:

October 2015
Susan Muaddi Darraj’s short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest...

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale
  • Out of gaza: new palestinian poetry
  • Against erasure: a photographic memory of palestine before the nakba
  • Elastic empire: refashioning war through aid in palestine
  • They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
  • The revolution of 1936โ€“1939 in palestine
  • Knights of cinema: the story of the palestine film unit
  • 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