О премии

Арабско-американская книжная премия присуждается американским писателям арабского происхождения.

Премия была учреждена в 2006 году Арабско-американским национальным музеем (AANM) и преподавателями соседнего университета Толедо.

Она вручается за "совершенство книг, которые сохраняют и развивают понимание, знания и ресурсы арабского американского сообщества, прославляя мысли и жизнь американцев арабского происхождения".

Цель премии - вдохновлять авторов, знакомить читателей с арабско-американской культурой, воспитывать к ней уважение и понимание.

Победители выбираются группами избранных читателей, включая уважаемых авторов, профессоров университетов, художников и сотрудников AANM.

Впервые премию вручали в 2007 году за книги, изданные в 2006 году. На следующий год, в 2007 году, количество поданных заявок увеличилось более чем вдвое по сравнению с годом открытия.

Чтобы обеспечить непрерывность присуждения награды создан специальный премиальный фонд.

Премия вручается в четырех номинациях. В 2011 году номинация Документальная литература для взрослых была переименована в Премию Эвелин Шакир за научно-популярную литературу. Профессор Эвелин Шакир (1938-2010) была пионером в изучении арабско-американской литературы, провела обширные исследования истории арабских женщин, написала на эту тему несколько книг.

Награды вручаются в торжественной обстановке каждую осень. Все лауреаты получает по 10 тысяч долларов.

Жанры: Зарубежная литература, Зарубежная поэзия, Современная зарубежная литература, Поэзия, Публицистическая литература, Документальная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2007 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: https://arabamericanmuseum.org/book-awards/

Номинации

Художественная литература для взрослых
Arab American Book Award for Adult Fiction
Премия Эвелин Шакир за научно-популярную литературу
Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award

До 2011 года номинация называлась "Документальная литература для взрослых".

Поэтическая премия Джорджа Элленбогена
The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award

Премия вручается с 2009 года.

Литература для детей и подростков
Arab American Book Award for Children's/Young Adult
Литература для подростков
Arab American Book Award for Young Adult

Присуждается с 2023 года.

Литература для детей
Arab American Book Award for Children's

Присуждается с 2023 года.

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30 августа 2023 г. — победители

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The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah 4.8
Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.

Neither here nor there, but long ago . . .

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son to find the artifact. Aided by her bodyguard, who has secrets of his own, they must survive ghoul attacks, outwit a vengeful jinn queen, and confront a malicious killer from Loulie's past. And, in a world where story is reality and illusion is truth, Loulie will discover that everything—her enemy, her magic, even her own past—is not what it seems, and she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Нур Нага 3.0
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.

A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga’s experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?
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Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest
Эдвард Э. Кертис IV 0.0
Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest

The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the country where many readers would not expect to find them.

Edward E. Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time.

Muslims of the Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded, felt, and smelled like―from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be ignored.
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Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
Гассан Зейнеддин 0.0
Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023! Hadha Baladuna ("this is our country") is the first work of creative nonfiction in the field of Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US. Narratives move from a young Lebanese man in the early 1920s peddling his wares along country roads to an aspiring Iraqi-Lebanese poet who turns to the music of Tupac Shakur for inspiration. The anthology then pivots to experiences growing up Arab American in Detroit and Dearborn, capturing the cultural vibrancy of urban neighborhoods and dramatizing the complexity of what it means to be Arab, particularly from the vantage point of biracial writers. Included in these works is a fearless account of domestic and sexual abuse and a story of a woman who comes to terms with her queer identity in a community that is not entirely accepting. The anthology concludes with explorations of political activism dating back to the 1960s and Dearborn's shifting demographic landscape.

Hadha Baladuna : Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging contains stories of immigration and exile by following newcomers' attempts to assimilate into American society. Editors Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell have assembled a cast of emerging and established writers from a wide array of communities, including cultural heritages originating from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen. The strong pattern in Arab Detroit today is to oppose marginalization through avid participation in almost every form of American identity-making. This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.
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Зейна Хашем Бек 0.0
From a brilliant, absolutely essential voice whose poems feel like whole worlds (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacred

Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying--from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each other--O explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.
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Ida in the Middle
Нора Лестер Мурад 0.0
Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents’ village near Jerusalem. An important coming of age story that explores identity, place, voice, and belonging.

Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what’s coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it’s all her fault—just for being Palestinian! In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school. But people still treat her like she’ll never fit in. Ida wishes she could disappear.

One day, dreading a final class project, Ida hunts for food. She discovers a jar of olives that came from a beloved aunt in her family’s village near Jerusalem. Ida eats one and finds herself there—as if her parents had never left Palestine! Things are different in this other reality—harder in many ways, but also strangely familiar and comforting. Now she has to make some tough choices. Which Ida would she rather be? How can she find her place?

Ida’s dilemma becomes more frightening as the day approaches when Israeli bulldozers are coming to demolish another home in her family’s village…
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Arab, Arab All Year Long!
Кэти Кампер 0.0
Celebrate the beauty and diversity of life in the Arab diaspora throughout the year.

Wrapping grape leaves, playing doumbek, drawing henna tattoos,
we’re Arab, Arab, Arab, the whole year through!

Yallah! From January to December, join some busy kids as they partake in traditions old and new. There’s so much to do, whether it’s learning to write Arabic or looking at hijab fashion sites while planning costumes for a local comic convention. With details as vivid as the scent of jasmine and honeysuckle perfume (made to remind Mom of Morocco), children bond with friends, honor tradition, and spend loving time with family. Accompanied by buoyant and charming illustrations, this portrait of Arab life and childhood zeal is sure to bring joy all year round. Back matter includes an extensive glossary and notes to enrich the experience for readers of any culture.
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