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Peter Beinart attends the PEN America 62nd Annual Literary Awards at Town Hall on March 31, 2026 in New York City.
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US Jewish author Peter Beinart receives PEN award for Gaza book

Peter Beinart’s latest book on Gaza and Jewish identity has won the PEN America Literary Award for nonfiction.

The New Arab Staff
25 April, 2026
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Amazon
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Is Amazon Ads silencing Palestinian books?

The New Arab Staff

Kori Davis

25 March, 2026
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Gaza Zines: Creative stories and hope from a war torn land

The New Arab Staff

Amy Fallon

12 March, 2026
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Authors boycott Adelaide Festival after Palestinian writer axed

The New Arab Staff
11 January, 2026
Ms Rachel speak on stage into a sparkly microphone. She wears a black and white dress decorated with illustrations by Palesatinian children.
Ms Rachel
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Ms Rachel to work with Mamdani to bring books to NYC children

The New Arab Staff
29 December, 2025
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction
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The 2026 Arabic Booker longlist explained

The New Arab Staff

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

24 December, 2025
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26 must-read new books for 2026

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Sarah Shaffi

17 December, 2025
In addition to academic publications, displays at MESA's book exhibit showed ways to bridge the past with the present. [Brooke Anderson/TNA]
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Washington MESA literary exhibit brings old world into the new

Brooke Anderson
07 December, 2025
David Szalay holds his booker prize trophy
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World
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How is this year's Booker Prize winner connected to Iraq?

The New Arab Staff
11 November, 2025
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Book Club
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10 must-read books by Palestinian authors you need to know

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Yousra Samir Imran

17 September, 2025
People visit Educational Bookshop bookstore, which was raided by Israeli forces on Feb. 9, in Jerusalem
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Israeli police release Palestinian bookseller after second raid

Oliver Mizzi
11 March, 2025
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"We've been speaking forever, but no one listens" – Ahmed Masoud

Reem Khabbazy
04 March, 2025
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Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop owners speak out after arrest

The New Arab Staff

Elias Feroz

24 February, 2025
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Hafez al-Assad
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With Assad gone, Syrian booksellers revive once-forbidden books

Mawada Bahah

Mawada Bahah

17 February, 2025
The owners of the bookshop have been released following the raid of the store and arrest of its owners [Getty]
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Israel releases detained Palestinian booksellers after shop raid

The New Arab Staff
11 February, 2025
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How one family is preserving Cairo's last bookbinding atelier

The New Arab Staff

Sara Amara

16 January, 2025
2024 book club
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The best books of 2024: Top 10 picks for the year

Zainab Mehdi

Zainab Mehdi

31 December, 2024
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Perspectives

US publishers serve Israeli colonisation, they must cut ties

BAG

Books Against Genocide

19 November, 2024
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South Africa book chain bans 'River to the Sea' children's book

Joseph Chirume
12 June, 2024
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Algeria
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Molière to Shakespeare: Algerian readership shift

The New Arab Staff

Tenere Majhoul

11 June, 2024
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Edinburgh book festival ends partnerships over boycott

The New Arab Staff
31 May, 2024