Meet the shortlisted authors of Palestine Book Awards 2025

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20 October 2025

Join us for an evening of celebration with the shortlisted authors for Palestine Book Awards 2025!

The evening is a chance for you to discuss with the shortlisted authors their works, inspirations and to network with them.

Author and journalist Victoria Brittain will host the event. We will be joined by the following authors, translators and editors: Azza El Hassan, Dr Dina Matar, Hazem Jamjoum, Louis Brehony, Matthew Teller, Nada Tarbush on behalf of the late Mohammad Tarbush, Omar El Akkad, Pankaj Mishra, Prof Tahrir Hamdi, Sarah Aziza and Yousef Aljamal.

The event will be held on Thursday, 13th November 2025 at 6.30pm in P21 Gallery, London, NW1 1JD.

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Please note: Having a ticket does not guarantee entry. Seats will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis so we advise you to be on time when registration opens to avoid disappointment.

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • Elastic empire: refashioning war through aid in palestine
  • The revolution of 1936–1939 in palestine
  • Against erasure: a photographic memory of palestine before the nakba
  • Out of gaza: new palestinian poetry
  • Knights of cinema: the story of the palestine film unit
  • Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale
  • 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