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25 April, 2025

Germany’s Most Right-Wing Parliament Since WWII—Liberals Panic, Immigrants Roll Their Eyes

Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.

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25 April, 2025

Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes of displacement.

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25 April, 2025

May World Picks from the Editors

Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.

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18 April, 2025

On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.

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TMR 49 • LOVE, WAR & RESISTANCE

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.

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The Markaz Review recommends these ten memoirs for 2024-2025.
The Markaz Review recommends these ten memoirs for 2024-2025.

Latest Essays & Fiction

Essays • 25 April, 2025

Germany’s Most Right-Wing Parliament Since WWII—Liberals Panic, Immigrants Roll Their Eyes

Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.

Books • 4 April, 2025

Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work will join the canon of world literature.

Book Reviews • 21 March, 2025

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia

An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its significance has shifted considerably.

Centerpiece • 7 March, 2025

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.

Fiction • 7 March, 2025

“The Monster Is Gone”—a story by Anna Lekas Miller

How do you talk about war and exile with your child, when all you want to do is protect him from the truth?

Essays • 7 March, 2025

A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams of her homeland.