Middle East Monitor’s Palestine Book Awards are back for a sixth year.
From 7.00pm (GMT) today, we will be live blogging the Awards Ceremony.
The Palestine Book Awards started in 2012 to honour, commemorate, and recognise the best authored works on the subject of Palestine. Since then, it has grown ever more influential and popular, with the number of submissions growing significantly.
Palestine Book Awards 2017 Shortlist
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine – Ibtisam Barakat, published by FSG Macmillan
The Oslo Accords – Petter Bauck and Mohammed Omer, published by The American University in Cairo Press
Code Name: Butterfly – Ahlam Bsharat, published by Neem Tree Press Ltd
Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance – Björn Brenner, published by I.B. Tauris
The Way to the Spring: Life and death in Palestine – Ben Ehrenreich, published by Granta Books
Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre – Samia Halaby, published by Schilt Publishing
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A history of the Occupied Territories – Ilan Pappé, published by Oneworld Publications
The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 – Laila Parsons, published by Saqi Books
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements – Ella Shohat, published by Pluto Press