2020 Arab American Book Award Winners
(Books published in 2019) WINNERS Fiction The Other Americans Laila Lalami (Pantheon) The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History Massoud Hayoun (The New Press) Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 Stacy
2019 Arab American Book Awards
2019 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2018) Winners Fiction Amreekiya by Lena Mahmoud As Good As True by Cheryl Reid The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo, by Oswaldo Truzzi; translated by Ramon J. Stern The Sound of Listening by Philip Metres The George
2015 Arab American Book Award Winners
2015 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2014) Winners Fiction An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine and The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past by Sally Howell The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Tahrir Suite: Poems by Matthew Shenoda
2014 Arab American Book Award Winners
2014 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2013) Winners Fiction The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War edited by Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award A Concordance of Leaves by Philip Metres Children/Young Adult
2007 Arab American Book Award Winners
2007 Arab American Book Award Winners Adult Non-Fiction Winner—The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood By Rashid Khalidi (Beacon Press) In his earlier book, Resurrecting Empire, Rashid Khalidi dissected the failures of colonial policy over the entire span of the modern history of the Middle East, predicted
2008 Arab American Book Award Winners
2008 Arab American Book Award Winners Adult Fiction Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Woman in America By Evelyn Shakir (Syracuse University Press) Click HERE to purchase this book from the online Museum Store. Remember Me to Lebanon is a collection of telling, often luminous stories, about the lives of Lebanese women
2009 Arab American Book Award Winners
2009 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books Published in 2008) Winners Adult Fiction A Map of Home: A Novel by Randa Jarrar Adult Non-Fiction How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi Children or Young Adult Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry breaking poems by Suheir Hammad Honorable Mentions
2010 Arab American Book Award Winners
2010 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2009) Winners Adult Fiction Master of the Eclipse by Etel Adnan Adult Non-Fiction Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics by Gregory Orfalea Poetry Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea: Poetry and Stories from Iraq by Dunya Mikail Honorable
2011 Arab American Book Award Winners
2011 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2010) Winners Fiction Loom: a Novel by Thérèse Soukar Chehade The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Arab Americans in Toledo: Cultural Assimilation and Community Involvement edited by Samir Abu-Absi Poetry Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa Children/Young Adult Saving Sky by Diane Stanley Honorable Mentions Non-Fiction Barefoot in
2012 Arab American Book Award Winners
2012 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2011) Winners Fiction Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany and Nadine Naber Poetry Abu Ghraib Arias by Philip Metres Honorable Mentions Fiction Anatomy