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 ShakirNon-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 Baghdad by

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Virtual Book Club: The Wandering Palestinian with Dr. Anan Ameri

7:30 p.m. EST Thursday, March 11, 2021 Virtual Book Club: The Wandering Palestinian with Dr. Anan Ameri FREE with RSVP Join Dr. Anan Ameri, founding director of AANM, at the next Virtual Book Club! Dr. Ameri will give a live reading from her recently published book The Wandering Palestinian, and

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