2022

Power born of dreams: my story is palestine

2022 winner
Power born of dreams: my story is palestine

Publisher:

Street Noise Books

Published:

September 2021
What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: “You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories,” stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of the West Bank, of...

Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

2022 winner
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

Author(s):

Heba Hayek

Publisher:

Hajar Press

Published:

July 2021
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies is written for those who had to leave—collected remembrances of a childhood in Gaza by a woman far from Palestine’s sun and sea. Overindulgent, chaotic and sentimental, Heba Hayek’s narrator...