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.

Books and IdeasAugust 26, 2008

In the Presence of Darwish

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

Sinan Antoon
PoetryMay 8, 2003

Dead Poets Society

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

Sinan Antoon
Non-fictionJanuary 16, 2003

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.

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Sinan Antoon

Books and IdeasAugust 26, 2008

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

PoetryMay 8, 2003

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

Non-fictionJanuary 16, 2003

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.