MEMO in conversation with Susan Abulhawa

31 March 2021

Watch our conversation with Palestinian novelist and poet Susan Abulhawa discussing her novel 'Against the Loveless World', described by the New York Times as "a beautiful, urgent novel of the Palestinian struggle".

The novel won the Palestine Book Awards Creative Prize in 2020.

Abulhawa is the co-chair of Palestine Writes, the first North American Palestinian literature festival. Her debut novel 'Mornings in Jenin' is considered a classic in Anglophile Palestinian literature. She is also a political commentator and frequent speaker.

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • 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
  • A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east
  • Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands
  • Against the Loveless World
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • Life in a Country Album
  •  There Where You Are Not
  • The Parisan
  • Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
  • Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel
  • Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People
  • Where the Bird Disappeared