Sinan Antoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 833229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sinan Antoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sinan |
| FAMILY NAME | Antoon |
| SIGNATURE | ANTOON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University New York, NY USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Tribute to Elias Khoury, 1948–2024
Sargūn Būluṣ
This paper explores how the poetry of the late Iraqi poet, Sargūn Būluṣ (1944–2007), responds to the material and epistemic violence inflicted on Iraq and Iraqis in recent decades. While Būluṣ was vehemently against podium poetry, he was never detached from politics. He believed that poetry could shelter the voices of those displaced and wounded by history. By reading several representative poems, this paper identifies the configuration of the ae…
Two Poems
Crazy Horse was not a crazy horse. He was an Apache child who ran faster than the windso his mother called him “Crazy Horse.” He hastened the seasons to grow up and defend the Apache. At night he dreamed of one thing: to be a strong bird, to soar in the belly of the sky, to nest in clouds, to pounce on the white man who hunted his ancestors like deer and scattered them in Arizona. But fever chased his soul from his body. It settled in a passing c…
Poems from The Dutchman's Pipe
No One Looks at Their Back in the Mirror
The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadoo…
Book of Collateral Damage
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary traditions while simultaneously struggling to open new possibilities for poetry. This collection spans Darwish's entire career, nearly four decades, r…
Five Poems
The Latin East
The Baghdad Eucharist
Set in 2010, Hail Mary unfolds over 24 hours in Baghdad. The events of the novel take place around two characters from an Iraqi Christian family, drawn together under the same roof by the chaos in the country. Youssef is an elderly man who is alone. He refuses to emigrate and leave the house he built, where he has lived for half a century. He still clings to hope and memories of a happy past. Maha is a young woman whose life has been torn apart b…
The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry
The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic litera
The dawn of the Arab uprisings
Cultural Production
Necropolis
Research Article| December 01 2007 Necropolis Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.16.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sinan Antoon; Necropolis. Qui Parle 1 December 2007; 16 (2): 1–3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.16.2.1 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends…
Monumental Disrespect
Mahmud Darwish's Allegorical Critique of Oslo
The Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish occupies a unique space in Arab culture and in the collective memory of Arabs as "the national poet of Palestine." This article provides a reading of one of Darwish's poems, "A Non-Linguistic Dispute with Imru' al-Qays," which was written after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord. The poem is read as an allegorical critique of Oslo and, at the same time, a retrospective contemplation of Darwish's own role in Pa…
F riends in N eed , F oes to H eed
Mahmud Darwish's Allegorical Critique of Oslo
The Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish occupies a unique space in Arab culture and in the collective memory of Arabs as "the national poet of Palestine." This article provides a reading of one of Darwish's poems, "A Non-Linguistic Dispute with Imru' al-Qays," which was written after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord. The poem is read as an allegorical critique of Oslo and, at the same time, a retrospective contemplation of Darwish's own role in Pa…
F riends in N eed , F oes to H eed
F riends in N eed , F oes to H eed
Mahmud Darwish's Allegorical Critique of Oslo
The Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish occupies a unique space in Arab culture and in the collective memory of Arabs as "the national poet of Palestine." This article provides a reading of one of Darwish's poems, "A Non-Linguistic Dispute with Imru' al-Qays," which was written after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord. The poem is read as an allegorical critique of Oslo and, at the same time, a retrospective contemplation of Darwish's own role in Pa…
Monumental Disrespect
Necropolis
Research Article| December 01 2007 Necropolis Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.16.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sinan Antoon; Necropolis. Qui Parle 1 December 2007; 16 (2): 1–3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.16.2.1 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends…
Cultural Production
The dawn of the Arab uprisings
The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry
The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic litera
The Baghdad Eucharist
Set in 2010, Hail Mary unfolds over 24 hours in Baghdad. The events of the novel take place around two characters from an Iraqi Christian family, drawn together under the same roof by the chaos in the country. Youssef is an elderly man who is alone. He refuses to emigrate and leave the house he built, where he has lived for half a century. He still clings to hope and memories of a happy past. Maha is a young woman whose life has been torn apart b…
The Latin East
The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadoo…
Book of Collateral Damage
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary traditions while simultaneously struggling to open new possibilities for poetry. This collection spans Darwish's entire career, nearly four decades, r…
Five Poems
Poems from The Dutchman's Pipe
No One Looks at Their Back in the Mirror
Two Poems
Crazy Horse was not a crazy horse. He was an Apache child who ran faster than the windso his mother called him “Crazy Horse.” He hastened the seasons to grow up and defend the Apache. At night he dreamed of one thing: to be a strong bird, to soar in the belly of the sky, to nest in clouds, to pounce on the white man who hunted his ancestors like deer and scattered them in Arizona. But fever chased his soul from his body. It settled in a passing c…
A Tribute to Elias Khoury, 1948–2024
Sargūn Būluṣ
This paper explores how the poetry of the late Iraqi poet, Sargūn Būluṣ (1944–2007), responds to the material and epistemic violence inflicted on Iraq and Iraqis in recent decades. While Būluṣ was vehemently against podium poetry, he was never detached from politics. He believed that poetry could shelter the voices of those displaced and wounded by history. By reading several representative poems, this paper identifies the configuration of the ae…
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