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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.

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21 March, 2025

Insurrection of the Spirit: Algeria’s Resistance Poet Anna Gréki

Gréki’s poetry expresses her deep love for Algeria while also serving as a powerful tribute to resistance against colonialism.

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14 March, 2025

Resistance and Revolution: on Ghassan Kanafani

Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.

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14 March, 2025

The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen

Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50 years.

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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.

Centerpiece

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

Latest Essays & Fiction

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.

Cities • 7 March, 2025

Heartbreak and Commemoration in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's latest onslaught.

Fiction • 7 March, 2025

Manifesto of Love & Revolution

Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere, many others shall take shape elsewhere.