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These olive trees

These olive trees

Author(s):

Aya Ghanameh

Publisher:

Viking Books For Young Readers

Published:

August 2023
The story of a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. It’s 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp...

Wild thorns

Wild thorns

Author(s):

Sahar Khalifeh

Publisher:

Saqi

Published:

January 2024
A young Palestinian named Usama returns to his homeland after several years working in the Gulf. Now an operative in the resistance movement, his mission is to blow up buses transporting Palestinian workers into Israel. But Palestine and its...

Found in Thyme

Found in Thyme

Author(s):

Lilas Taha

Publisher:

Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press

Published:

January 2023
A man’s dying wish unearths a tumultuous past and brings together two lost souls searching for the missing pieces that will make them whole again…each other. When a horrific terrorist attack rocks the airport Sami Amara happens to be...

The flirtation of girls/ghazal el-banat

The flirtation of girls/ghazal el-banat

Author(s):

Sara M Saleh

Publisher:

University Of Queensland Press

Published:

November 2023
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh. With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic lives of girls and women as...

Some things never leave you

Some things never leave you

Author(s):

Zeina Azzam

Publisher:

Tiger Bark Press

Published:

July 2023
In Some Things Never Leave You, Palestinian American poet Zeina Azzam writes about forced displacement, cultural identity, memory, and the depth and meaning of human connections. The book comprises three parts: 1) “Reclaiming the...

Palestinian music in exile: voices of resistance

Palestinian music in exile: voices of resistance

Author(s):

Louis Brehony

Publisher:

American University In Cairo Press

Published:

November 2023
A historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locationsPalestinian Music in Exile is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile...

Behind You Is the Sea

Behind You Is the Sea

Publisher:

Swift Press

Published:

June 2024
Behind You Is the Sea is a compelling debut that fearlessly challenges stereotypes surrounding Palestinian culture. A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Ms Magazine, Lithub and Elle Funny and touching, Behind You Is...

The Moon That Turns You Back

The Moon That Turns You Back

Author(s):

Hala Alyan

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Published:

March 2024
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and...

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • 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
  • 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