Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون

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

[Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون @sinanantoon]

#Of_Loss_and_Lavender among the best books of 2026 so far. #The_New_Yorker @otherpress

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The United States has denied entry to Iraq's official photographer for the World Cup.

He was detained for at least 12 hours and in the end was sent back to his country.

— @Romain_Molina

[Ronaldo Nazário @Ronaldo]

As probabilidades podem estar contra a gente… mas nós já vencemos elas cinco vezes e fomos campeões do mundo. Tá liberado acreditar na sexta. 🤞🇧🇷🍻

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Marcia Hutchinson's novel was rejected 54 times before a small Black-owned publisher said yes.

Now The Mercy Step has been shortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Hutchinson says race may have been a factor in her book getting rejected so many times.

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

Le buteur historique de l'Irak 🇮🇶, Aymen Hussein, a été retenu par les autorités américaines pendant sept heures pour un interrogatoire à son arrivée à l'aéroport de Chicago.

Aucune explication n'a évidemment été donnée par les Etats-Unis - des médias évoquent simplement une confusion de nom.

Pour rappel, le destin de l'attaquant avait été particulièrement bouleversé par l'invasion américaine de 2003 puisque son père (soldat) fut assassiné par Al-Qaïda quelques années plus tard et sa famille fit partie des "déplacés internes" comme des millions d'Irakiens (leur moyen de survie était le salaire de footballeur gagné par Aymen, alors un jeune adulte, à Bagdad)

Son grand frère (Atheer) fut également kidnappé par l'Etat islamique (qui contrôlait le village natal où la famille vivait, dans le nord du pays) et n'a jamais été retrouvé ; il est présumé mort

C'est Aymen, l'un des capitaines de l'équipe nationale, qui a marqué le but décisif envoyant son pays à la Coupe du Monde 40 ans après

C'est ce même Aymen qui a été reçu par le premier ministre irakien suite à la qualification en compagnie de sa maman.

Et c'est encore et toujours le souriant attaquant qui subit des interrogatoires de sept heures en arrivant sur le sol américain tel un potentiel terroriste mais que pouvait-il y faire ? Aymen Hussein est irakien, et cela semblait suffisant pour le priver de ses droits.
Confusion d'identité ou non, cela importait en réalité bien peu : si ce n'était pas lui, alors ce serait un autre - un Irakien de moins ou de plus, quelle différence cela ferait pour les Etats-Unis ?

[Jadaliyya @jadaliyya]

“Jews were not singled out as the exceptional minority in the 19th century Middle East. It’s simply not the case. There’s nothing analogous to the antisemitism of Europe. Don’t allow people to take talking points to distract from the suffering of the Palestinians or even worse, to pit Arab Jews against Arab Palestinians."

What Have We Learned?
Israel’s Genocide — One Year On w/ @UssamaMakdisi and @4Bassam (Sep 2024)

https://t.co/2H2Lx64Mkv

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“The first thing anyone noticed in Theodosia was her smile. We’d always see her laughing.”

This Lebanese student was killed by Israel just after finishing her final exams. Theodosia Karam is one of over 3,500 people killed by Israel’s attacks on Lebanon since March.

[Iraq Football Podcast @IraqFootballPod]

🎥 Here’s that stunning goal from
Merchas Doski to give Iraq the equaliser against Spain!

What an audacious strike 🤩

[Jeremy Gans @jeremy_gans]

“To write her opinion article, Professor Ellis uploaded 40,000 words of her own original materials into a Copilot Large Language Model (LLM),” a spokesperson for the university said.": https://t.co/7Fc4RoADFJ

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

After Israel occupied Gaza & the West Bank in 1967, it deported Palestinian intellectuals, educators & politicians who (peacefully) resisted Israeli domination.

In 1969, Jordan stopped allowing Israel to do this at border crossings.

So Israel started dumping Palestinians in the desert. They sent 800 Palestinians onto a virtual death march from 1969-1973.

Yusuf 'Abdullah 'Udwan was deported this way. Here's his survival testimony:

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

“Jesus told us to forgive our killers, but this is too much”

Heartbreaking moments from the funeral of Theodosia Karam, her brother Tony and their father James in Qlayaa, southern Lebanon. James was driving his children home from their exams when an Israeli drone killed them

[B.M. @ireallyhateu2]

"I took my (rocket launcher) person. I told him - you see that window? Hit there. He tells me 'there's a family there.' I told him I don't give a fuck. Burn them all."

IGF soldier casually confesses to ordering the murder of a family and saying "how fun it is to hear them burn".

Originally posted in September 2025.

[bintjbeil.org @bintjbeilnews]

"أنا كرمال الحيوانات ما فليت.. أنا بخاف الله"
تسجيل صوتي مؤثّر للعاملة السريلانكية الشهـ..."رحمة" التي استهدفتها "إسرائيل" صباحًا في بلدة حبّوش، وهي ترفض المغادرة وترك الحيوانات دون رعاية.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Adam Hamawy describes what he wishes people could understand from his time treating patients in Gaza:

"Much worse" than what we see online.

"The smells, the full senses…crying children, the families…to see this every single day…you just can't even describe it well enough."

[Jadaliyya @jadaliyya]

“The problem is not the Jewish presence in the holy land, it’s always been there. The problem is not high levels of Jewish immigration to Palestine. The problem here is the colonial agenda transforming an overwhelmingly Arab territory into an exclusivist and supremacist Jewish state which required the removal of the Arab population.”

What Have We Learned?
Israel’s Genocide — One Year On w/ @MouinRabbani and @4Bassam (Sep 2024)

https://t.co/TlU9BYl6zk

[AJE Sport @AJE_Sport]

Iraq are back at the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 40 years and young players at Baghdad’s Al Zawraa academy are dreaming of following the Lions of Mesopotamia to the global stage.

Al Jazeera’s @JazeeraBernard reports.

[Ahmad M. Yassine | أحمد م. ياسين @Lobnene_Blog]

استهدف العدو الإسرائيلي منذ قليل الشابة لمى طلال بسما، في غارة مسيرة على دراجتها النارية في عين بعال، لمى كانت تبقي مطبخها مفتوحا دعما للصمود غأصبحت هدفًا لإسرائيل في جريمة حرب جديدة

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.

Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴An incredibly violent morning so far in Lebanon. Dozens of Israeli air and drone strikes so far have killed multiple people, including six Palestinian and Syrian laborers in a massacre in the Hosh neighborhood of Tyre, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

See below a video of a man being hunted by an Israeli drone and then targeted on the side a busy highway. This is not the first time this has happened.

[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

أبٌ يأخذ ولديه إلى الجامعة كي لا يضيعا امتحاناتهما. فتاة تدرس البيولوجيا وتحلم بمستقبلها. شاب يدرس الهندسة. عائلة تؤمن أن العلم ما زال الطريق الوحيد للخلاص في هذا البلد. خرجوا من القليعة إلى بيروت رغم الخوف، رغم الحرب، رغم القلق، لأننا في لبنان تربّينا على أن خسارة سنة دراسية قد تغيّر مصيراً كاملاً. عادوا إلى البيت … لكنهم لم يصلوا.
الدكتور جيمس كرم، وابنته ثيودوسيا، وابنه طوني، هم صورة عن آلاف العائلات اللبنانية التي تعيش كل يوم بين نارين: الخوف على حياتها والخوف على مستقبل أولادها. وما يزيد الوجع أن الطلاب كانوا قد حذّروا. الأساتذة ناقشوا. الناس خافت. لكن أحداً لم يسمع بما يكفي.
في أي بلد طبيعي، لا يُجبر الطلاب على الاختيار بين الامتحان والموت. في أي بلد طبيعي، لا يصبح الوصول إلى الجامعة رحلة قد تنتهي بجنازة. وفي السيارة التي احترقت، يقول من شاهدوا المشهد إن ما بقي كان الإنجيل وصورة السيدة العذراء. وكأن ّهذا البلد، رغم كل الرماد، ما زال يتمسّك بالإيمان … أو كأنّ السماء تحاول أن تذكّرنا بأن الإنسانية لم تمت بالكامل بعد.
رحم الله جيمس وثيودوسيا وطوني كرم. ورحم هذا الوطن الذي يتآكل فيه الإنسان يوماً بعد يوم.
المسيح قام 💔💔💔
#جيمس_كرم #القليعة #لبنان

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴 Lebanese Ministry of Health:

4 killed, 127 Wounded, and Severe and Extensive Damage at Jabal Amel Hospital

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement announcing that the raids launched by the Israeli enemy in the vicinity of Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre yesterday, Monday, June 1, resulted in 4 people killed and 127 wounded. Among them are 39 members of the hospital’s medical, nursing, and administrative staff, distributed as follows:

4 doctors, 27 nurses, and 8 employees—four of whom are in critical condition and receiving treatment in intensive care.
The aggression also caused severe and extensive damage across the hospital's various floors, departments, and parking lot.

The Ministry of Public Health salutes the courage of the administration and workers who insisted on keeping the doors open and continuing the humanitarian and health service mission carried out by Jabal Amel Hospital under the burdens of unprecedented danger and violence.

The Ministry emphasizes that this attack, and the martyrs, wounded, and damage it caused, is nothing but a further embodiment of the law of the jungle that the Israeli enemy strictly applies, defying all laws, charters, and resolutions approved by the international community.