On February 18th, Iraqi-Palestinian author, Saleem Haddad, celebrated the UK release of his latest novel, ‘Floodlines’, with a conversation with the 2023 Desmond Elliot Residency prize winner, Santanu Bhattacharya, at Waterstones bookshop.
Click here to read the full interview with author Saleem Haddad.
At its heart, Floodlines is a novel about the Iraqi lived experience, navigating themes of grief, memory and identity, while charting the emotional aftershocks of a century shaped by war and revolution in Iraq and beyond.
- Published: 26th February, 2026
- Location: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Editor: Amel Saleh
- Photographer: Amel Saleh
- Category: Heritage
