Sinan Antoon

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Sinan Antoon is a writer, scholar, and translator. His most recent work is The Book of Collateral Damage. He is an associate professor at New York University.

No One Looks at Their Back in the Mirror
By Ibtisam Azem
Summer 2021
Ibtisam Azem
Manal Deeb / Courtesy of the artist A trip to the doctor leaves an unnecessary burden on a young girl. I inherited the dark skin of the slim body I inhabit from my mother. Together with worr…
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
By Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish
Sinan Antoon, tr. New York. Archipelago. 2011. ISBN 9781935744016 Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, threaded themes of death and loss throughout his poetry of hope, resistance, and empowerment. He an…