“One of the most important Iraqi and Arab novels to be published in recent times . . . An Iraqi novel par excellence.”
Baghdad
Blues
a collection of my poems in English was published from Harbor Mountain Press in June, 2007. You can order it here.
The World (Interview), June 15, 2007
I`Jaam is featured in Kirkus Review’s First Fiction Spotlight Issue of 2007: Promising Debuts from Important New Voices

". . . reads as a miniature of Iraqi suffering from the Baathists to Bush. . . Antoon's achievement is to tip us into real lives: those of all the real unknown prisoners, from Iraq to Guantanamo and its gulag, and on."
Judith Kazantzis, Banipal
Sep 15th
Poetry Reading @ The Ear Inn, NYC
326 Spring St., New York, NY 10013
nr. Greenwich St.
212-226-9060
Sep 16th
Brooklyn Book Festival
12:00 PM Main Stage
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
Sep 28th
University of Oklahoma
Neustadt Conference
10:45 11:45 AM
Meachan Auditorium
Oct 5-7, Paris
Festival D’Automne
October 19th
Toronto
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 7 PM
73 Harbord Street
http://www.womensbookstore.com/
October 23rd
Labyrinth Books, NYC
7:00 PM
536 West 112th Street (Between Broadway and Amsterdam)
212-865-1588
October 25th
College of the Holy Cross, MA
November 2nd
Minneapolis
Reading and Book Signing
MIZNA- Playwright’s Center
2301 Franklin Ave East
612-332-7481
November 10th:
Busboys & Poets, Washinton, DC, 4-6 pm
American University- Poetry Reading 7:30 pm
I’jaam translations into Portuguese, German,
and Serbo-Croatian coming this year!