The Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) is pleased to present Lama Ghosheh with the 2024 Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem for her essay, “Sociology of House Arrest: A Personal Experience. Escape as a Tool of Resilience" which will be published in a forthcoming issue of JQ. Lama Ghosheh is a freelance reporter from Jerusalem.
The Jury consisted of Nadim Bawalsa: a member of the Editorial Committee of the Jerusalem Quarterly, Rana Barakat: A contributing Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly, and Mezna Qato: A contributing Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly.
Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem is an annual award launched by JQ in 2017 to commemorate the memory and work of Ibrahim Dakkak (1929–2016), former chairman of the Advisory Board of JQ. The deadline for submissions is 15 January of each year. A committee selected by the Jerusalem Quarterly will determine the winning essay, which will receive a prize of $1000, and will be published in the journal.
For more information, and for submissions, please check the following link.