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Before the queen falls asleep

Before the queen falls asleep

Publisher:

MacLehose Press

Published:

March 2024
"An immersive feminist novel that meshes the personal and political to moving effect" Preti Taneja, Financial Times"A brilliant novel of the Palestinian diaspora. Funny and gritty, and bursting with life and humour" Ahdaf...

A dream of palestine

A dream of palestine

Author(s):

Wafa Shami

Publisher:

Bowker/amazon - Selfpublished

Published:

January 2024
Noor, a young school-aged girl, is curious to learn about what happened to her Palestinian grandmother (teta) during the infamous 1948 Nakba  (The Catastrophe) that befell the Palestinian people, and why her family was forced to leave their...

Jenin And The Precious Palestine Pie

Jenin And The Precious Palestine Pie

Author(s):

Nadine Foty

Publisher:

Independently published

Published:

May 2023
Jenin And The Precious Palestine Pie is a children's story about the Nakba. Jenin, a talented baker, is shocked when Sam steals her pie and later her shop. The secret recipe of her homeland Palestine has the power to help her reclaim...

A language of one’s own

A language of one’s own

Author(s):

Ismail Nashef

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press

Published:

July 2023
A Language of One’s Own demystifies the roles of literature and literary practices in the Palestinian national movement since 1948 Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, literary Arabic became one of the main representatives of...

My brother, my land: a story from palestine

My brother, my land: a story from palestine

Author(s):

Sami Hermez

Publisher:

Redwood Press, An Imprint Of Stanford University Press

Published:

January 2024
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr...

Dovess & olives

Dovess & olives

Author(s):

Farah Ayaad

Publisher:

Independently Published

Published:

April 2024
Doves & Olives is a universal message about the Palestinian journey of grief, belonging, courage and liberation; the second part in the 'Right of Return' dilogy. This tragic yet magic collection of poetry and prose, activates your soul mission...

Gaza on screen

Gaza on screen

Author(s):

Nadia Yaqub

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Published:

August 2023
Gaza’s long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not just news reports and documentaries, but also essay, experimental, and fiction films, militant...

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