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• We Walked On

  Thérèse Soukar Chehade

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  Winner of the 2025 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Chehade is a Lebanese American writer.

• Something About Living

  Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf,

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  Winner of the 2025 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award. Tuffaha is an Arab American poet, essayist, and translator.

• Cue

  poems

  Masannat, Siwar

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  Honorable mention for the 2025 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award. Masannat is a Jordanian writer.

• Shubeik Lubeik

  Muḥammad, Dīnā,

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  Winner of the 2024 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Muhammad is an Egyptian writer, illustrator, and designer.

• Dearborn

  Stories

  Zeineddine, Ghassan,

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  Honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Zeineddine is a Lebanese American writer.

• The Weight of Ghosts

  Halaby, Laila

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  Honorable mention for the 2024 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Halaby is an author born in Jordan.

• Kaan and Her Sisters

  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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  Honorable mention for the 2024 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award. Khalaf Tuffaha was raised in Saudi Arabia and Jordan and is of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian descent.

• The Stardust Thief

  Abdullah, Chelsea,

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  Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Abdullah is an American-Kuwaiti writer.

• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

  Naga, Noor

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  Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Naga was raised in Dubai and is a Canadian-Egyptian writer.

• Muslims of the Heartland

  How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest

  Curtis, Edward E.,

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  Winner of the 2023 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Curtis is a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners.

• O

  Hashem Beck, Zeina,

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  Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry. Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and author.

• Learning America

  One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children

  Mufleh, Luma

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  Honorable mention for the 2023 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Mufleh is an author and activist who was born in Jordan and came to the U.S. as a refugee.

• Bride of the Sea

  a Novel

  Quotah, Eman,

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  Winner of the 2022 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Quotah is a novelist who grew up in Saudi Arabia and Ohio.

• Don't Forget Us Here

  Lost and Found at Guantánamo

  Adayfi, Mansoor,

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  Winner of the 2022 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Adayfi is an advocate and former Guantánamo Bay detainee.

• Return to Ruin

  Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia

  Saleh, Zainab

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  Winner of the 2022 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Saleh is professor who has written extensively on Iraqi communities.

• Against the Loveless World

  a Novel

  Abulhawa, Susan,

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  Winner of the 2021 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist.

• Arab Routes

  Pathways to Syrian California

  Gualtieri, Sarah

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  Winner of the 2021 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Gualtieri is a professor specializing in Middle Eastern studies.

• Alligator and Other Stories

  Alzayat, Dima

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  Honorable mention for the 2021 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Alzayat was born in Syria and grew up in California.

• The Other Americans

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  Winner of the 2020 Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction. Lalami is a novelist and professor born in Morocco and educated in Great Britain and the United States.

• When We Were Arabs

  a Jewish Family's Forgotten History

  Hayoun, Massoud,

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  Winner of the 2020 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award. Hayoun is a journalist based on Los Angeles.