Culture Editors

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist and translator. His poems and essays (in Arabic) have appeared in as-Safir, al-Adab, al-Akhbar, Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya, Masharef and (in English) in The Nation, Middle East Report, Al-Ahram Weekly, Banipal, Journal of Palestine Studies, The Massachusetts Review, World Literature Today, Ploughshares, Washington Square Journal, and the New York Times.

He has published two collections of poetry; Mawshur Muballal bil-Hurub (Cairo, 2003) and Laylun Wahidun fi Kull al-Mudun (One Night in All Cities) (Beirut/Baghdad: Dar al-Jamal, 2010). His novels include I`jaam (2003), which has been translated into English as I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (City Lights, 2006), as well as Norwegian, German, Portuegese, and Italian, Wahdaha Shajarat al-Rumman (The Pomegranate Alone) (Beirut: al-Mu'assassa al-`Arabiyya, 2010), forthcoming from Yale University Press in Spring 2013 as The Corpse Washer, and Ya Maryam (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012). His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence, was published by Archipelago Books in 2011 and won the 2012 National Translation Award given by the American LIterary Translators Association (ALTA). His co-translation (with Peter Money) of a selection of Saadi Youssef's late poetry was published by Graywolf in November 2012.

Sinan is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Arab Studies Journal. He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School, New York University and co-founder of Jadaliyya.

Maymanah Farhat is an art historian who has written widely on modern and contemporary Arab art. Her essays have been featured in a number of monographs, exhibition catalogues, e-zines, and journals. Her reviews have appeared in Monthly Review, ArtAsiaPacific magazine, and Callaloo: Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, among others. As part of her work for a commercial art space in the Middle East, from 2009 until 2011, she authored over 100 artist bios and profiles for half a dozen auction catalogues.

Based in New York since 2005, she has curated several exhibitions for non-profits in the city, including the South Asian Creative Womens Collective's 14th annual exhibition at Cuchifritos gallery in lower Manhattan. In 2010, she co-curated New York Chronicles at the Virginia Commonwealth University Gallery in Doha, Qatar. Maymanah is the co-editor of Jadaliyya's culture page.