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Sinan Antoon’s research interests lie in pre-modern and modern Arabic literature and contemporary Arab culture and politics. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014) and numerous essays on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Sargon Boulus and on contemporary Iraqi culture. His writings in Arabic have appeared in major journals and publications in the Arab world and in New York Times, Middle East Report , Journal of Arabic Literature, and World Literature Today among others. He has published two collections of poetry in Arabic and one collection in English as well as three novels: I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (City Lights, 2007), Wahdaha Shajarat al-Rumman (Beirut, 2010) and Ya Maryam (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012). Antoon returned to Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to co-direct the documentary, About Baghdad. In 2009, he was a fellow at the EUME Program at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Arab Studies Journal and co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya.

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin is Professor for Jewish History at the Department of Jewish History and chairs the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Raz-Krakotzkin studies both early modern Christian-Jewish discourse and Zionist historical consciousness. Among his publications are: The Censor, the Editor and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), for which he received the Zalman Shazar Prize for Jewish History, and Exil et souveraineté. Judaïsme, sionisme et pensée binationale (La fabrique, 2007). In 2003/4 Raz-Krakotzkin was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and he is a member of the Collegium of “Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe.”