our next speaker is sinan antoon born in baghdad at new york university and the author of a novel also make collection of poetry and a translator. he is also a member of the editorial board would you want to get bad grasp of middle east politics, i highly encourage you to look at it. >> i am going to have to say a few things about the embassy as well. the protesters also attacked the saudi embassy but that never made it to the news so this is not necessarily about anti-semitism and the context is important to israel killed five soldiers on the israel the egyptian border and that was never dealt with properly. and about embracing the military, people have this romantic view of their national military all over the world unfortunately and that is what i was going to say in egypt they have the romantic notion and and people who are courageous the standing up against the army and i have to say because of donald rumsfeld in the last month it has been disheartening for me to see the architect of the so-called war on terror with our civil liberties to being welcomed back into the media as if n

our next speaker is sinan antoon purity is the author of a novel and john and iraq city and collection poetry, "the baghdad blues: poems" appeared as a translator of arabic poetry and prose, most recently of the work by mahmoud darwish come in the presence of an absence which has just been published by the brooklyn-based independent archipelago books. lucette is an editor if you want to get a grasp on a deeper grasp on middle east politics, i highly encourage you to look at. thanks, sinan. >> thank you, adam. i'm going to have to say a few things about the embassy as well. that never made it to the news. so this should tell you that this is not necessarily about anti-semitism. as he said, the context is important. israel killed five soldiers on the israeli egyptian order and that was never dealt with properly. and about embracing the military -- i mean, people have this romantic view of their national military all over the world unfortunately. and that's what i was going to say. and egypt, some people have this romantic notion. there's a lot of people who are courageously standing up a