Arab American National Museum Book Award

Given by Arab American National Museum

Other Names: Arab American National Museum Book Award Nominee
130 Works 25,070 Books 1,391 Reviews ½ 3.8
The Arab American Book Award encourages the publication and excellence of books that preserve and advance the understanding, knowledge, and resources of the Arab American community by celebrating the show more thoughts and lives of Arab Americans. The purpose of the Award is to inspire authors, educate readers and foster a respect and understanding of the Arab American culture.

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Stages:
All, Winner (74), Honorable Mention (56)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (7), 2021 (9), 2020 (9), 2019 (8), 2018 (5), 2017 (10), 2016 (6), 2015 (7), 2014 (11), 2013 (9), 2012 (6), 2011 (7), 2010 (5), 2009 (6), 2008 (6), 2007 (5)

Winner 74

WorkCategoryYear
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea AbdullahAdult Fiction2023
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor NagaAdult Fiction2023
Arab Arab All Year Long! by Cathy CamperChildren's Literature2023
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest by Edward E. Curtis IVEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2023
Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging by Ghassan ZeineddineEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2023
O (Penguin Poets) by Zeina Hashem BeckGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2023
Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester MuradYoung Adult2023
Home Is Not a Country by Safia ElhilloChildren/Young Adult2022
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor AdayfiEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2022
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia by Zainab SalehEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2022
Bride of the Sea by Eman QuotahFiction2022
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems by Threa AlmontaserGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2022
Against the Loveless World by Susan AbulhawaAdult Fiction2021
Farah Rocks Fifth Grade by Susan Muaddi DarrajChildren/Young Adult2021
The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story by Aya KhalilChildren/Young Adult2021
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California by Sarah M. A. GualtieriEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2021
Stories My Father Told Me: Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon by Elia ZughaibEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2021
Birthright by George AbrahamGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2021
Washes, Prays by Noor NagaGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2021
The Other Americans by Laila LalamiAdult Fiction2020
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka GharibChildren's/Young Adult2020
Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 by Stacy D. FahrentholdEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2020
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History by Massoud HayounEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2020
A Theory of Birds: Poems (Etel Adnan Poetry Series) by Zaina AlsousGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2020
Amreekiya: A Novel (Contemporary Poetry And Prose) by Lena MahmoudAdult Fiction2019
As Good as True by Cheryl ReidAdult Fiction2019
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (Poets On Poetry) by Philip MetresAdult Non-Fiction2019
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil (Studies of World Migrations) by Oswaldo TruzziAdult Non-Fiction2019
I've Loved You Since Forever by Hoda KotbChildren's/Young Adult2019
Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems by Fady JoudahPoetry2019
Salt Houses by Hala AlyanAdult Fiction2018
The rise of the Arab American left : activists, allies, and their fight against imperialism and racism, 1960s-1980s by Pamela E. PennockAdult Non-Fiction2018
The January Children (African Poetry Book) by Safia ElhilloPoetry2018
The Angel of History: A Novel by Rabih AlameddineAdult Fiction2017
The Treasure of Maria Mamoun by Michelle ChalfounChildren/Young Adult2017
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (Indigenous Americas) by Steven SalaitaEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2017
Something Sinister by Hayan ChararaGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2017
A Curious Land: Stories from Home (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction) by Susan Muaddi DarrajAdult Fiction2016
Handbook of Arab American psychology by Mona M. AmerEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2016
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Moustafa BayoumiEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2016
The Republics (Pitt Poetry Series) by Nathalie HandalGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2016
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih AlameddineAdult Fiction2015
The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiAdult Fiction2015
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab NyeChildren's/Young Adult2015
Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past by Sally HowellEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2015
Tahrir Suite: Poems (Triquarterly) by Matthew ShenodaGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2015
The Corpse Washer by Sinan AntoonAdult Fiction2014
A Kid's Guide to Arab American History: More Than 50 Activities by Yvonne Wakim DennisChildren's/Young Adult2014
We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by Nadje Al-AliEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2014
A concordance of leaves by Philip MetresGeorge Ellenbogen Poetry Award2014
Lebanese Blonde (Sweetwater Fiction: Originals) by Joseph GehaAdult Fiction2013
Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books by Susan L. RothChildren/Young Adult2013
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony ShadidEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2013
Atrium: Poems by Hala AlyanPoetry2013
Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-JaberAdult Fiction2012
Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) by Rabab AbdulhadiAdult Non-Fiction2012
Abu Ghraib Arias by Philip MetresPoetry2012
Loom: A Novel (Arab American Writing) by Thérèse Soukar ChehadeAdult Fiction2011
Saving Sky by Diane StanleyChildren/Young Adult2011
Arab Americans in Toledo by Samir Abu-AbsiEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2011
Tocqueville (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Khaled MattawaPoetry2011
Master of the Eclipse by Etel AdnanAdult Fiction2010
Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics by Gregory OrfaleaAdult Non-Fiction2010
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea by Dunya MikhailPoetry2010
A Map of Home by Randa JarrarAdult Fiction2009
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa BayoumiAdult Non-Fiction2009
Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab NyeChildren's/Young Adult2009
Breaking Poems by Suheir HammadPoetry2009
Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America (Arab American Writing by Evelyn ShakirAdult Fiction2008
Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil by John Tofik KaramAdult Non-Fiction2008
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam BarakatChildren's/Young Adult2008
In the Country of Men by Hisham MatarAdult Fiction2007
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid KhalidiAdult Non-Fiction2007
One Green Apple by Eve BuntingChildren's/Young Adult2007

Honorable Mention 56

WorkCategoryYear
Mama in Congress: Rashida Tlaib's Journey to Washington by Rashida TlaibChildren's Literature2023
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion by Evelyn AlsultanyEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2023
Sajjilu Arab American : a reader in SWANA studies by Louise CainkarEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2023
Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children by Luma MuflehEvelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award2023
DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW. by Noor HindiPoetry2023
Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry) by Lubna SafiPoetry2023
The Turtle of Michigan: A Novel by Naomi Shihab NyeYoung Adult2023
Arab American women : representation and refusal by Michael W. SuleimanNon-Fiction2022
The Good Arabs (English and Arabic Edition) by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-LynchPoetry2022
Alligator by Dima AlzayatFiction2021
Articulations of Resistance : Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry by Sirene HarbNon-Fiction2021
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf RumAdult Fiction2020
Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries by Sherine HafezAdult Non-Fiction2020
Other Words for Home by Jasmine WargaChildren's/Young Adult2020
Invasive species by Marwa HelalPoetry2020
Mirage by Somaiya DaudChildren's/Young Adult2019
El Cerrito : haibun by Noor Al-SamarraiPoetry2019
Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture by Mehammed Amadeus MackAdult Non-Fiction2018
Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf TuffahaPoetry2018
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona AwadAdult Fiction2017
Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt by Hanan HammadAdult Non-Fiction2017
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine by Ibtisam BarakatChildren's/Young Adult2017
The Three Lucys by Hayan ChararaChildren's/Young Adult2017
One Hundred Hungers: Poems by Lauren CampPoetry2017
Hagar Poems by Mohja KahfPoetry2017
In the Language of Miracles: A Novel by Rajia HassibAdult Fiction2016
Sand Opera by Philip MetresPoetry2016
The Olive Tree by Elsa MarstonChildren's/Young Adult2015
And the Time Is: Poems, 1958-2013 by Samuel HazoPoetry2015
The Woman Upstairs by Claire MessudAdult Fiction2014
Between the Middle East and the Americas : the cultural politics of diaspora by Evelyn AlsultanyAdult Non-Fiction2014
The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-HaddadAdult Non-Fiction2014
Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora by Ella Habiba ShohatAdult Non-Fiction2014
The Arab World Thought of It: Inventions, Innovations, and Amazing Facts (We Thought Of It) by Saima S HussainChildren's/Young Adult2014
Alight by Fady JoudahPoetry2014
My Daughter La Chola by Farid MatukPoetry2014
Flying Carpets by Hedy HabraAdult Fiction2013
Even My Voice Is Silence: A Palestinian-American Woman's Journey "Back Home" by Soha Al-JurfAdult Non-Fiction2013
The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir by Sophia Al-MariaAdult Non-Fiction2013
Shatter Me by Tahereh MafiChildren/Young Adult2013
Sea and fog by Etel AdnanPoetry2013
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham MatarAdult Fiction2012
Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader's Guide (Arab American Writing) by Steven SalaitaAdult Non-Fiction2012
Transfer by Naomi Shihab NyePoetry2012
Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity-My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos by Manal OmarAdult Non-Fiction2011
Time to Pray by Maha AddasiChildren/Young Adult2011
This Isa Nice Neighborhood by Farid MatukPoetry2011
Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 by Louise A. CainkarAdult Non-Fiction2010
A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories by Alia MalekAdult Non-Fiction2010
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree MakdisiAdult Non-Fiction2009
Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists (Artists of the American Mosaic) by Fayeq S. OweisAdult Non-Fiction2009
Origin: A Novel by Diana Abu-JaberAdult Fiction2008
Kisses From a Distance (Bridge Between the Cultures) (Bridge Between the Cultures) by Raff EllisAdult Non-Fiction2008
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens : Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook by Nawal NasrallahAdult Non-Fiction2008
The Arab Americans (The New Americans) by Randa A. KayyaliAdult Non-Fiction2007
"Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear by Tim Jon SemmerlingAdult Non-Fiction2007

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