6 p.m. ET Saturday, November 8, 2025
2025 Arab American Book Awards Ceremony
FREE with RSVP
Register for in-person attendance OR Register for livestream
Join the 2025 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions for an awards ceremony featuring readings from their awarded works. At a time 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.
This year, AANM will be honoring Sinan Antoon with the Anan Ameri Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more about Sinan by reading below and watching this video.
The event will also be livestreamed.
Schedule:
- 5:30 p.m. – Doors open/Reception
- 6:30 p.m. – Ceremony
- 8:00 p.m. – Book Signing
About the Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Sinan 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 and Sukhf (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014) and a forthcoming book on the Iraqi poet, Sargon Boulus. He has published academic articles on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Sargon Boulus, Saadi Youssef and on contemporary Iraqi culture. His essays in Arabic have appeared in major journals and publications 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 appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Journal of Palestine Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, among others. Antoon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions 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 Jadaliyya and associate professor at New York University.
Made possible in part by
Dr. Anan Ameri Book Awards Endowment Fund
Drs. Barbara and Adnan Aswad Endowment Fund
George Ellenbogen Endowment Fund
Evelyn Shakir Endowment Fund
