The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) awards Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge 2019) its book award.

In its award announcement, the AMECY committee notes the book’s significant contribution to understanding how children are used as political capital by those in power in society. The committee writes, “Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, as an academic and activist living and working in East Jerusalem is not a distanced observer of the society she is studying but an engaged participant with a commitment to witnessing and sharing the experiences of Palestinians in Israel, and of Palestinian children in particular.” The committee lauds the book’s contribution “both to the academic literature on children and childhood in the Middle East and to an engaged and activist politics of the present.”

You can listen to an interview with Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian on her book here.