Sinan Antoon

Our cor­rupt po­lit­i­cal sys­tem is be­yond re­form or re­pair, but young Iraqis will con­tin­ue to fight for a new Iraq.

Who gave per­mis­sion to the New York Times to re­move thou­sands of ISIL files from Iraq?

Iraqis still re­mem­ber the more than 400 civil­ians the US mil­i­tary killed in a sin­gle bomb­ing in Bagh­dad in 1991.

Bagh­dad’s ap­pear­ance has changed dra­mat­i­cal­ly over 10 years – but its love of po­et­ry and writ­ing has not.

Syr­i­an poet Adu­nis may be at the heart of mod­ern Ara­bic po­et­ry, yet the Arab Spring has con­signed him to ir­rel­e­vance.