Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon, Michael Palmer, and Russell Banks, speaking in tribute to the late writer Mahmoud Darwish, at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Born	1967 Baghdad
Occupation	Associate Professor, novelist, poet
Website
sinanantoon.com

Sinan Antoon (Arabic: سنان أنطون‎‎), is an award-winning poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as ". . .one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world. . ." He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

"He was one of a coterie of dissident diasporic Iraqi intellectuals who opposed the 2003 US occupation of his homeland that led to the current post-colonial quagmire." Antoon was featured in the 2003 documentary film About Baghdad, which he also co-directed and co-produced.

His articles have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and in pan-Arab dailies including al-Hayat, al-Akhbar and as-Safir where he writes a weekly opinion column.

His poems and novels have been translated to nine languages. He is also a co-founder and co-editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya.

Antoon was born in 1967 in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother. He received his B.A. in English with distinction from the University of Baghdad in 1990 with minors in Arabic and Translation. He left Iraq in 1991 after the onset of the Gulf War and moved to the United States. He completed an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in 1995. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic Studies. His doctoral dissertation was the first study on the 10th century poet, Ibn al-Hajjaj and the genre of poetry he pioneered (sukhf).