Author: Sinan Antoon

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U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the nation aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and declares major fighting over in Iraq on 1 May 2003, as it sails for Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California (photo: AFP Photo/Stephen Jaffe)

The Iraq War fifteen years on

"America destroyed my country"

Fifteen years ago, on 20 March 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq. Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon describes the pain of watching his country disintegrate in the aftermath, made all the more acute since the perpetrators of this "colossal mistake" are still at largeMore

Murder and kidnapping in Iraq: An inexorable tideSinan Antoon′s ″The Baghdad Eucharist″: Fading under fireInterview with Sinan Antoon: Using irony to tackle trauma

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Ramadan: Enlightenment and commerce

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