Winners

This evocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut, provides an account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, and tracks how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty...

Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the U.S’s role as a purportedly impartial, honest broker in 35 years of a failed Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Khalidi closely analyses three critical moments to reveal how the U.S and Israel have colluded to...

Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue commonly ignored: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself. What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem'. Israel...

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...

These are a treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change. The result is a vibrant, sprawling collection of...

How do Palestinians live and reflect on home and exile in this period of stateless and transitory Palestine with a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence? In this volume of new writing, fifteen Palestinian writers- essayists, poets, novelists,...

Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, this book shows how the social service activities sponsored by Hamas emphasized not political violence but community development and civic restoration.  Roy demonstrates...