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8 December, 2023

World Picks from the Editors: Dec 9 — Dec 22

The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several cultural world events.

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4 December, 2023

The Palestine Laboratory and Gaza: An Excerpt

Antony Loewenstein, winner of Australia's highest journalism award, presents his latest exploration of Israel and Palestine.

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28 November, 2023

On the Herculean Task of Translating Joyce’s Ulysses into Kurdish

Kawa Nemir felt he'd been preparing to undertake the translation of James Joyce's masterpiece his whole life...

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28 November, 2023

“My Father’s Last Meal”—a Kurdish Tale

In the aftermath of his father's death by shrapnel from an Iraqi shell, Dilan Qadir contends with a life intricately shaped by his absence. 

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TMR 37 • ENDINGS & BEGINNINGS

“Of Wood and Hallucination”—fiction from Mansoura Ez-Eldin

After the war, a few scant survivors become one with the elements, and one takes to writing down thousands of words a day in an invented language.

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Latest Essays & Fiction

Beirut • 3 December, 2023

“The Summer They Heard Music”—a short story by MK Harb

There are some long, languid and even dangerous summers that Beirutis can never forget, and this is one of them.

Fiction • 3 December, 2023,

“Of Wood and Hallucination”—fiction from Mansoura Ez-Eldin

After the war, a few scant survivors become one with the elements, and one takes to writing down thousands of words a day in an…

Fiction • 3 December, 2023,

“Twelve Angels”—fiction from Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

In this short story by Egyptian writer Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, translated from Arabic, a man contends with his mortality on his death bed.

Fiction • 3 December, 2023,

“Kabul’s Haikus”—fiction from Maryam Mahjoba

In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a girl's school.

Essays • 3 December, 2023

The Paranda Network—Afghan Women Writing

Breaking stereotypes that their country is only about war, Afghan women continue to write despite the Taliban, writes Lillie Razvi.

Fiction • 3 December, 2023,

“The Waiting Bones”—an essay by Maryam Haidari

As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its eight-year wake.