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29 May, 2023

The Markaz Review Interview—Leila Aboulela, Writing Sudan

Yasmine Motawy interviews the critically-acclaimed Sudanese novelist and short story writer, Leila Aboulela.

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29 May, 2023

Cruising the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.

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29 May, 2023

From Pawns to Global Powers: Middle East Nations Strike Back

Former ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr. argues that we have entered a new era in which players are shifting on the geopolitical chess table.

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22 May, 2023

The Markaz Review Interview—Faïza Guène  

Melissa Chemam interviews the French-Algerian novelist Faïza Guène on the publication of her novel Discretion in English translation.

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TMR 31 • WORK

Immigrants in Houston: Fiction From Anis Shivani’s Patel Mart

Novelist Anis Shivani has lived in Houston for more than a decade and sets his upcoming novel amongst its immigrant community.

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Latest Essays & Fiction

Essays • 1 May, 2023

Working the News: a Short History of Al Jazeera’s First 30 Years

Iason Athanasiadis on how the Arab world’s most famous product went from boisterous matchbox to counter-hegemon with an establishment role.

Centerpiece • 1 May, 2023

Immigrants in Houston: Fiction From Anis Shivani’s Patel Mart

Novelist Anis Shivani has lived in Houston for more than a decade and sets his upcoming novel amongst its immigrant community.

Essays • 1 May, 2023

The Outsourcing of Pain—On Work and Alienation

Ahmed Awadalla reflects on how his pursuit of freedom through a job in Cairo has led to growing pains that followed him to Berlin.

Essays • 1 May, 2023

The Invisible Walls, a Meditation on Work and Being

Arab writer Nashwa Nasreldin reflects on her work experiences at home and abroad, and on the meaning of everything.

Fiction • 1 May, 2023

Short Fiction: By Mistake/On the Bus to Work

If I hadn’t seen you, I might have forgotten all the wrongs of this world that belong to me.

Essays • 17 April, 2023

When a Country is not a Country—the Chimera of Borders

Writer-photographer Ara Oshagan mediates on the borders between North and South Korea and the blockaded enclave of Artsakh.