7 books shortlisted for Palestine Book Awards 2024

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26 June 2024

Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is pleased to announce the books shortlisted for its Palestine Book Awards 2024. This prestigious event, now in its thirteenth year, honours and celebrates books published in English about Palestine and encourages authors and publishers to produce more books on Palestine.

2024 has been another successful year, with over 50 books submitted for consideration. The shortlisted publications selected by the judges have added to the diversity of submissions and genres featuring the Palestinian narrative.

This year’s Award winners will be announced in November.

The 2024 shortlisted authors are:

Our panel of Judges this year are:

MEMO offers its heartiest congratulations to the finalists, gratitude to all those who have submitted their work for consideration and to the judges who have had the difficult task of deciding the shortlist and winners.

 

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 1936–1939 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