Satan and Death presiding over the waiting room of a psychiatric clinic, a sailboat and a map to pirate’s treasure, the loss of a beloved cat… the subjects of the books that won this year’s Arab American Book Awards  are as diverse as they are creative. Check many of them out from our branches or online! 

Winners:

Fiction: The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine

The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award: Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine by Steven Salaita (available in the research collections)

The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award: Something Sinister by Hayan Charara (available in the research collections)

Children/Young Adult: The Treasure of Maria Mamoun by Michelle Chalfoun

Honorable Mentions:

Fiction: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

Nonfiction: Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt by Hanan Hammad

Poetry: One Hundred Hungers by Lauran Camp and Hagar Poems by Mohja Kahf (available in the research collections)

Children/YA: The Three Lucys by Hayan Charara and Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine by Ibstisam Barakat

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