Notes From a Lost Country – Book Launch

Join Saqi Books and the Arab British Centre to welcome celebrated Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and scholar Sinan Antoon.

Sinan will be discussing his latest book, Notes From a Lost Country – a breathtaking portrait of lives rebuilt in the shadow of loss. The novel follows two Iraqi men in exile – a retired doctor slipping into dementia, and a deserter marked by war – as they navigate life in America after the 2003 Gulf War. Both carry wounds that won’t heal: one lost in the past, the other desperate to erase it. Sinan will be in conversation with fellow Iraqi author Dalia Al-Dujaili, whose debut book Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration was published in 2025.