Of Loss and Lavender (Khuzāma) by Sinan Antoon
Date: Tuesday 8 December 2026
Time: 15:00–16:00
Place: OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Of Loss and Lavender by the Iraqi author Sinan Antoon (2026).
Two Iraqis rebuilding their lives in the United States after the Gulf War struggle with memory, trauma, and the burden of exile. As their stories converge, Antoon crafts a moving meditation on displacement, identity, and the afterlives of war.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Teresa Pepe at teresa.pepe@ikos.uio.no.
More about this event on the University of Oslo website
Al-Ard Book Club brings together readers from different backgrounds to read, share, and discuss works of Arabic literature that explore the intersections of environmental disruption, memory, displacement, and care for the land. The club is organised by the al-ARD research group at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS), University of Oslo, which researches environmental care in the Middle East region. Masahat is a partner in al-ARD.