2013 Arab American Book Award Winners
2013 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2012) Winners Fiction Lebanese Blonde by Joseph Geha The Evelyn ShakirNon-Fiction Award House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid Poetry Atrium: Poems by Hala Alyan Children/Young Adult Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by
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
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
2016 Arab American Book Award Winners
2016 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2015) Winners Fiction A Curious Land: Stories of Home by Susan Muaddi Darraj The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award Handbook of Arab American Psychology edited by Mona M. Amer and Germine H. Awad and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Moustafa
2017 Arab American Book Award Winners
2017 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2016) 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 The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Something Sinister by Hayan Charara Children/Young Adult The Treasure of Maria Mamoun by Michelle Chalfoun Honorable
2018 Arab American Book Award Winners
2018 Arab American Book Award Winners (Books published in 2017) Winners Fiction Salt Houses by Hala Alyan The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award The Rise of the Arab-American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight Against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s by Pamela E. Pennock The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award The January Children by Safia Elhillo
Book Awards
The Arab American Book Award is an honor given each year to outstanding books written by or about Arab Americans. The Arab American Book Award was established in 2006 in partnership with librarians from the University of Toledo, and the mission is to celebrate Arab American literature and honor those
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