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9 books shortlisted for Palestine Book Awards 2022

June 11, 2022 at 6:00 pm

Palestine Book Awards [Middle East Monitor]

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is pleased to announce the books shortlisted for its 2022 Palestine Book Awards. This prestigious event, now in its eleventh year, honours and celebrates books in English about Palestine. It, equally, encourages authors and publishers to produce more books on Palestine.

2022 has been another successful year with over 50 books submitted for consideration. The highest record of books put forward for the Awards.

The shortlisted winners selected by the judges have added to the diversity of submissions and genres featuring the Palestinian narrative.

Judges also reviewed 4 children’s books. An exceptional new growing genre in regards to Palestine.

The 2022 shortlisted authors are:

  • Ashjan Ajour – Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes
  • Erling Lorentzen Sogge – The Palestinian National Movement in Lebanon
  • Heba Hayek – Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
  • Maryam S. Griffin – Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank (Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality)
  • Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi – Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practising Resistance in Palestine (Psychoanalytic Political Theory)
  • Lynn Welchman – Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
  • Mohammad Sabaaneh* – Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine
  • Mosab Abu Toha – Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
  • Saree Makdisi – Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

Our panel of Judges this year are:

MEMO offers its heartiest congratulations to the finalists and 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.

All queries on books and authors should be directed to [email protected]

*Mohammad Sabaaneh is also a MEMO cartoonist