The fifth annual Palestine Book Awards is taking place in London tonight. Leading figures from the political, academic and literary communities will be joining in the celebration and unveiling of the winners of 2016 Palestine Book Awards.

MEMO’s flagship event is the culmination of months of hard work. Nominations start in January with submissions being made by national and international publishers. Seven books are then then shortlisted from three categories: academic, memoir and creative, by an expert panel of judges. All books entered into the running for consideration this year were published between June 2015 and June 2016.

This year’s seven shortlisted books are: A Curious Land by Susan Darraj; Being Palestinian by Yasir Suleiman, Imperial Perceptions of Palestine by Lorenzo Kamel; I Remember My Name by Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso; Men of Capital by Sherene Seikaly; Palestinians in Syria by Anaheed Al-Hardan; War Against the People by Jeff Halper.

To watch the event and the unveiling of this year’s winners tune in to the livestream from 7pm GMT by following this link: http://www.palestinebookawards.com/live