Sinan Antoon

is a poet, novelist, translator and filmmaker. He was born in Baghdad in 1967 and moved to the USA after the 1991 Gulf War. He did his graduate studies at Georgetown and Harvard and has a PhD in Arabic literature from the latter. His poetry and articles (Arabic & English) have appeared in various journals and publications. He has one collection of poems Mawshur Mubalalal bil-Hurub [A Prism; Wet with Wars]. Merit, Cairo) and one novel I"jaam – an Iraqi Rhapsody (Arabic, Beirut 2004 and English, City Lights, USA, 2007, reviewed in Banipal 29, and now published in more than four languages). He is co-director of the documentary film About Baghdad on the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam occupied Iraq (2003).

To read the review of I"jaam – an Iraqi Rhapsody in Banipal 29, click here.
To read a review of I"jaam – an Iraqi Rhapsody in The Nation, click here.

Sinan Antoon is a contributing editor of Banipal, an editorial committee member of Middle East Report and a member of PEN America. He is an assistant professor at New York University.

In June 2007, Harbor Mountain Press published his poetry collection, Baghdad Blues.

Read more at www.sinaan.com.