Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He holds degrees from Baghdad, Georgetown and Harvard, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. Antoon has published two collections of poetry and four novels, including The Book of Collateral Damage (2019), The Baghdad Eucharist (2017) and The Corpse Washer (2013). His essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian and The Nation. He is an associate professor at New York University. His works have been translated into thirteen languages.
As of August 2020
Events
CC: World
With contributions by Sinan Antoon and James T. Hong
Digital series
Aug 6, 2020
Why Are We Here Now?
Trains in the Past, Tracks in the Present
Rania Stephan: Train-Trains: A Bypass, film
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity, lecture
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train, lecture
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel That Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track, staged literary reading
- After the Wildly Improbable -
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity, lecture
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train, lecture
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel That Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track, staged literary reading
- After the Wildly Improbable -
Sep 15, 2017

Dictionary of Now
Joseph Vogl, Allen Feldman & Sinan Antoon – FEAR
Lectures, reading, discussion
Jun 12, 2017