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The Lionel Gelber Prize - The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • About the Prize
    • Rules for Eligibility
    • Submission Process
    • Sponsor
    • Press Room
  • Lionel Gelber Biography
  • 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize
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  • About the Prize
    • Rules for Eligibility
    • Submission Process
    • Sponsor
    • Press Room
  • Lionel Gelber Biography
  • 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize
  • Prize by Years
  • Multimedia

1993

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Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
Kanan Makiya
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
The Shortlist

The other shortlisted books for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize were as follows:

  • John Cavanagh
    Robin Broad
    Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines
  • John English
    The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester B. Pearson 1949-1972
  • Robert D. Kaplan
    Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
  • David Remnick
    Lenin’s Tomb
Jurors
Prof. Denis Smith
Jury Chair (Canada)
Dr. Thomas Axworthy
Canada
Jane Barrett
Prof. Linda B. Miller
USA
Christopher Young
Canada
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Impassioned Book Honoured with $50,000 Prize
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