Sinan Antoon

Memory and Forgetting in Of Loss and Lavender

Memory and Forgetting in Of Loss and Lavender

Sinan Antoon’s self-translated novel explores the different ways memory unfolds in exile but offers no closure.

31 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...

20 JUNE 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
To the Light—Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 1919-2021

To the Light—Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 1919-2021

Ammiel Alcalay remembers an American original, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who was also the publisher and doyen of City...

24 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
 
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