Two years have passed since the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) died at a hospital in Texas from complications he suffered after a heart surgery. His death left a considerable void in Palestine and the Arab world. He was, after all, a (...)
Sinan Antoon recalls the voice of a nation
Very few poets become the voice of their nation and even fewer succeed in transcending that to become much more. Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was that rare bird who crossed many skies and horizons. His death (...)
The dead do not vote, writes Sinan Antoon*. But neither, in Iraq, are they counted
Each act in the ongoing and seemingly never-ending Iraqi tragedy has a climactic scene, at times imaginary, at times painfully real. We are now approaching one such (...)
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(De)liberation
The paradise promised in Iraq has been lost, writes Sinan Antoon*
In the imagocratic world which inhabits us, one image is usually repeated ad nauseam until it secures its permanent place in this or that grand (...)
