Sinan Antoon | The Nation

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.

Articles

In the Presence of Darwish (Books and Ideas, Books and the Arts)

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

Sinan Antoon

Dead Poets Society (Regions and Countries, Poetry)

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

Sinan Antoon

Dissident or Apologist? (US Wars and Military Action, Non-fiction)

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.

Sinan Antoon

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