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Sinan Antoon

Baghdad, Manhattan, New York
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🇮🇶بغدادي من كتبي: «إعجام» «كما في السماء» «فهرس» «خزامى» Author of "Postcards from the Underworld" & "Of Loss and Lavender"
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Of Loss and Lavender

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By Sinan Antoon
| Literary Hub Verified
When Sami woke up from his nap no the cozy, oversized leather recliner, an old black-and-white Egyptian film was playing on the gigantic TV screen. Startled at finding himself there, he didn’t identify the actors or recall the film’s title as he does usually. He tried to sit up, but he couldn’t lower the footrest. He forgot he could easily do that using the release handle on the lower right side. A number-less rectangular clock rested on the wall above the TV. Its hands pointed to 3:15.
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The "State of Emergency" as the Rule and Not the Exception: crisis conditions and exploitative lawmaking during COVID-19 and beyond

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By Vasuki Nesiah, Sinan Antoon
| LSE Connect Verified
Writing in the context of resistance to 20th century Fascism, in his "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Walter Benjamin wrote, "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule." The pattern of authoritarian regimes exploiting crisis conditions to push forward unjust and marginalizing reforms has been repeated in the context of numerous crises and conflicts worldwide throughout recent history.
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Sinan Antoon’s ‘Of Loss and Lavender’

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By Sinan Antoon
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Interviews Of Loss and Lavender, Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon with Tugrul Mende Of Loss and Lavender, by Sinan Antoon, translated by the author. Other Press, 2026. In Sinan Antoon’s latest self-translated novel Of Loss and Lavender, set to be published with Other Press in March, two Iraqis struggle to forge a place for themselves in the United States after the Gulf War. In this conversation over e-mail, Prof.
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