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SUMMARY:2025 Arab American Book Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:DEARBORN\, MI\n\n\n2025 Arab American Book Awards Ceremony\nFRE
 E with RSVP\n\nRegister for in-person attendance OR Register for livestrea
 m\nJoin the 2025 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions f
 or an awards ceremony featuring readings from their awarded works. At a t
 ime when many in the Arab American community are being silenced\, we come 
 together for this ceremony to showcase our own voices and tell our stories
 .\nThis year\, AANM will be honoring Sinan Antoon with the Anan Ameri Life
 time Achievement Award. Learn more about Sinan by reading below and watchi
 ng this video.\nThe event will also be livestreamed.\nSchedule:\n\n 	5:30 
 p.m. – Doors open/Reception\n 	6:30 p.m. – Ceremony\n 	8:00 p.m. – B
 ook Signing\n\nAbout the Lifetime Achievement Awardee\n\nSinan Antoon is a
  poet\, novelist\, translator and scholar. He holds degrees from Baghdad\,
  Georgetown and Harvard\, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature
 . His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj an
 d Sukhf (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2014) and a forthcoming book on the Iraqi po
 et\, Sargon Boulus. He has published academic articles on the poetry of Ma
 hmoud Darwish\, Sargon Boulus\, Saadi Youssef and on contemporary Iraqi cu
 lture. His essays in Arabic have appeared in major journals and publicatio
 ns in the Arab world. He writes a bi-weekly column for the London-based\, 
 pan-Arab daily\, al-Quds al-Araby. His essays and op-eds in English have a
 ppeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Journ
 al of Palestine Studies\, Journal of Arabic Literature\, among others. Ant
 oon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Produc
 tions to co-direct About Baghdad\, a documentary about the lives of Iraqis
  in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq. Antoon was a fellow at the Institute for 
 Advanced Study in Berlin in 2016. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadali
 yya and associate professor at New York University.
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