5 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021
Arab American Book Awards Ceremony
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Join the 2021 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions, featuring awardees Susan Abulhawa, Sarah M.A. Gualtieri, Helen Zughaib, George Abraham, Noor Naga, Aya Khalil, Anait Semirdzhyan, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Dima Alzayat and Sirène Harb for a celebratory live reading, hosted by artist-in-residence Fargo Tbakhi!
Fiction Award Winner
Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa
(Atria Books)
The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Winner
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California
Sarah M.A. Gualtieri
(Stanford University Press)
The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Winner
Stories My Father Told Me
Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib
(Cune Press)
The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner
Birthright
George Abraham
(Button Poetry)
The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner
Washes, Prays
Noor Naga
(Penguin Random House)
Children/Young Adult Award Winner
The Arabic Quilt
Aya Khalil, Illustrated by Anait Semirdzhyan
(Tilbury House)
Children/Young Adult Award Winner
Farah Rocks Fifth Grade
Susan Muaddi Darraj
(Capestone)
Honorable Mention in Fiction
Alligator And Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
(Two Dollar Radio)
Honorable Mention in
Non-Fiction
Articulations Of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab American Poetry
Sirène Harb
(Routledge)
Made possible in part by:
Drs. Barbara and Adnan Aswad Endowment Fund
George Ellenbogen Endowment Fund
Evelyn Shakir Endowment Fund
Due to the pandemic, we have been closed to the public since March 13. Closed doors mean that our earned revenue streams have dried up, and corporate funds have been pivoted to assist with COVID-19 relief or for their own financial survival. We are looking forward to the day we can safely reopen, but until then, we need your support.