#sinan antoon

[mv11]

كنت أحب أن أراقبها وهي تفعل أي شيء مهما كان عابراً أو عادياً. لأن العابر والعادي معها كان مختلفاً تلوّنه بلمستها وتبلّله بوجودها

I used to love watching her do anything, no matter how fleeting or ordinary it was. Because the fleeting and the ordinary, with her, became different colored by her touch and drenched in her presence

سنان أنطون

[garadinervi]

Ibtisam Azem (ابتسام عازم), The Book of Disappearance, Translated by Sinan Antoon (سنان أنطون), Simon & Schuster India, New York, NY, 2025 [Originally published in Arabic as Sifr al-Ikhtifa’, Dar al-Jamal Publishers, Beirut, 2014; then Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2019; And Other Stories, Sheffield, London, New York, NY, 2024]

[houseofpurplestars]

We do injustice to Gaza if we glorify it, because being enchanted by it will take us to the edge of waiting and Gaza doesn’t come to us.

Gaza does not liberate us.

- "Silence for Gaza" (1973), Mahmoud Darwish, translation by Sinan Antoon

Mahmoud Darwish: ‘Silence for Gaza’

Sinan Antoon’s translation of the Mahmoud Darwish poem “Silence for Gaza.”

[arablit]

Novelist Ibtisam Azem on Absence, Presence, and Disappearance

Last month, the UK edition of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance appeared in Sinan Antoon’s translation from And Other Stories. Rahael Mathews took the opportunity to discuss this compelling speculative work — in which Palestinians suddenly disappear from across historic Palestine — with its author. Rahael Mathews: The novel is centered around the sudden disappearance of all Palestinians…

Novelist Ibtisam Azem on Absence, Presence, and Disappearance

[mekkawy069]

“وددت لو أن بإمكاني أن أغسل روحي أيضاً ، لكنها كانت أعمق من أن يصلها الماء”

سنان أنطون_إعجام

[lillyli-74]

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

~Sinan Antoon

[zelitte]

Time is a black hole. A hole into which things fall and disappear. Even the beginning of this whole universe, according to one theory, was an explosion. And the universe is just fragments and debris, and here we are, living the consequences and effects of it. I’m going to pluck this minute out of the black hole. But why? There are people who write in order to change the present or the future, whereas I dream of changing the past. This is my rationale and the rationale of my catalog.

Sinan Antoon, The Book of Collateral Damage

[abdel-hamidd]

Opinion | I Will Visit Your Grave When I Go to Iraq

Safa al-Sarray was killed when Iraqi forces fired a tear-gas canister at his head.