The novel "Papa Sartre" by Ali Badr is a satirical and profound literary work, released in 2001, and is considered one of the prominent modern Iraqi novels.

Set in Baghdad during the 1970s, it explores the world of intellectuals and existentialists through the character of Abdul Rahman, nicknamed "Papa Sartre" in reference to the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

The novel depicts the decay of the bourgeois intellectual class in Iraq and how cultural awareness turned into a form of pretentious intellectualism without true depth. With a satirical style full of contradictions, Ali Badr narrates the intellectual and political defeats experienced by the postmodern generation in the Arab world, particularly in Iraq.