The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award presented by Middle East Monitor for English-language books about Palestine. Established in 2012, the award honors books across a range of genres by writers, scholars, translators, and artists whose work focuses on Palestinian history, society, politics, and culture.

Winners +YearAuthor(s)TitleRef2012Jen Marlowe, Sami Al JundiThe Hour of Sunlight2012Sara RoyHamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector2012Ben WhitePalestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy2013Penny Johnson, Raja ShehadehSeeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home2013Rashid KhalidiBrokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East2014Salim Tamari, Issam NassarThe Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-19482014Diana AllanRefugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile2014Ali AbunimahThe Battle for Justice in Palestine2015Elias SanbarThe Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day2015Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation2015Jean-Pierre FiliuGaza: A History2016Lorenzo KamelImperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times2016Yasir SuleimanBeing Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora2016Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah SabawiI Remember My Name2016Anaheed Al-HardanPalestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities2017Ilan PappeThe Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories2017Samia HalabyDrawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre2017Laila ParsonsThe Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-19482017Bjorn BrennerGaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance2017Ella ShohatOn the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements2018Salim TamariThe Great War and the Remaking of Palestine2018Maha NassarBrothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world2018Colin AndersonBalfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution2018Reja-e BusailahIn the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood2019Ghassan ZaqtanWhere the Bird Disappeared2019Nabil AnaniPalestine, Land and People2019Andrew RossStone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel2019Noura ErakatJustice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine2019Isabella HammadThe Parisian2020Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry FloodThere Where You Are Not2020Nathalie HandalLife in a Country Album2020Rashid KhalidiThe Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–20172020Susan AbulhawaAgainst the Loveless World2021Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx QualeyWondrous Journeys in Strange Lands2021Erik SkareA history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east2021Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell PlitnickExcept for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics2021Timothy BrennanPlaces of Mind: A life of Edward Said2022Heba HayekSambac Beneath Unlikely Skies2022Lynn WelchmanAl-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization2022Mohammad SabaanehPower born of dreams: my story is palestine2022Stephen Sheehi, Lara SheehiPsychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine2022Ashjan AjourReclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body2022Saree MakdsiTolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial2022Mosab Abu TohaThings You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza2023Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein BarghouthiAmong the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir2023Nadim BawalsaTransnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 19482023Tahrir HamdiImagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity2023Dareen TatourI Sing From the Window of Exile2023Dena Takruri, Ahed TamimiThey Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom 2024 Lisa Bhungalia Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine 2024 Sandra Barrilaro, Teresa Aranguren Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba 2024 Alan Morrison, Atef Alshaer Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry 2024 Khadijeh Habashneh Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit 2024 Amanda Najib Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale 2024 Ghassan Kanafani, Hazem Jamjoum The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine 2025 Nasser Abourahme The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine Between Camp and Colony 2025 Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Hazem Jamjoum No One Knows Their Blood Type 2025 Refaat Alareer If I Must Die 2025 Mohammad Tarbush My Palestine: An Impossible Exile 2025 Sarah Aziza The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders 2025 Pankaj Mishra The World After Gaza 2025 Mohammed el-Kurd Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal 2025 Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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