Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is the author of a collection of poems, The Baghdad Blues, and a novel, I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody. His co-translation of Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, a selection of Mahmoud Darwish's poems, was nominated for the PEN Prize for translation in 2004. He is an assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School.

In the Presence of Darwish In the Presence of Darwish

A tribute to the premier Arab poet of the past half-century.

Aug 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society

It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

Dissident or Apologist? Dissident or Apologist?

The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi dissident par excellence.

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

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