Join the 9th annual Palestine Book Awards!
The evening will begin with a keynote address by Dr Rima Khalaf, former Jordanian minister and president of the Global Organisation Against Racial Discrimination and Segregation.
The keynote will be followed by a roundtable discussion with our shortlisted authors, discussing their books, moderated by Professor Eugene Rogan of St Anthony’s College, Oxford.
After the roundtable, the winners of this year's award will be announced.
Shortlisted Authors:
Susan Abulhawa | Against the Loveless World
Finbarr Barry Flood (Editor) | There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata
Nathalie Handal | Life in a Country Album
Rashid Khalidi | The hundred years' war on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Sahar Khalifeh (Author), Sawad Hussain (Translator) | Passage to the Plaza
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian | Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Gardner Thompson | Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
You can read the judges' notes on why their books were shortlisted here.