[{"id":50779,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50779"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:37:46","slug":"the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lemon Tree Family<\/em>\u2014an excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1629,"featured_media":50946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[253,3002,4363],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[4662],"coauthors":[5610,2107],"class_list":["post-50779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-arabic-literature-in-translation","tag-sudanese-literature","tag-war-in-sudan","article-category-monthly","article-type-fiction","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T11:37:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Hamed Al-Nazir, Rana Asfour\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Hamed Al-Nazir, Rana Asfour\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"14 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Hamed Al-Nazir\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/81f453a7d6fd9c417788df6531ba421e\"},\"headline\":\"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-04T11:37:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":6,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Arabic literature in translation\",\"Sudanese literature\",\"war in Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-04T11:37:46+00:00\",\"description\":\"This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"Saqib Ali, \\\"Knowledge That Refuses to Disappear,\\\" photograph, 2025 (courtesy the artist).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/81f453a7d6fd9c417788df6531ba421e\",\"name\":\"Hamed Al-Nazir\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c73c5af8817c01c345c6ed36e997a5800fec735a0cd68a8e4bcb131b576e5d6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ef3f486520fd4701d9da0f8ccc4b05f\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c73c5af8817c01c345c6ed36e997a5800fec735a0cd68a8e4bcb131b576e5d6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c73c5af8817c01c345c6ed36e997a5800fec735a0cd68a8e4bcb131b576e5d6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Hamed Al-Nazir\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/hamedalnazir\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt - The Markaz Review","description":"This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt","og_description":"This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-04T11:37:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Hamed Al-Nazir, Rana Asfour","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Hamed Al-Nazir, Rana Asfour","Est. reading time":"14 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/"},"author":{"name":"Hamed Al-Nazir","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/81f453a7d6fd9c417788df6531ba421e"},"headline":"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:34+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-04T11:37:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/"},"wordCount":6,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg","keywords":["Arabic literature in translation","Sudanese literature","war in Sudan"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/","name":"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:34+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-04T11:37:46+00:00","description":"This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707,"caption":"Saqib Ali, \"Knowledge That Refuses to Disappear,\" photograph, 2025 (courtesy the artist)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-lemon-tree-family-an-excerpt\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Lemon Tree Family\u2014an excerpt"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/81f453a7d6fd9c417788df6531ba421e","name":"Hamed Al-Nazir","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c73c5af8817c01c345c6ed36e997a5800fec735a0cd68a8e4bcb131b576e5d6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ef3f486520fd4701d9da0f8ccc4b05f","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c73c5af8817c01c345c6ed36e997a5800fec735a0cd68a8e4bcb131b576e5d6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c73c5af8817c01c345c6ed36e997a5800fec735a0cd68a8e4bcb131b576e5d6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Hamed Al-Nazir"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/hamedalnazir\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-SaqibAli_SAIND20250726Madrasa-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51000,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779\/revisions\/51000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50779"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50779"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50779"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50834,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50834"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:04:33","slug":"weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":50957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[1050,1288,1294,2852],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[4664],"coauthors":[5611],"class_list":["post-50834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-literature","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-art","tag-swana","article-category-monthly","article-type-essay","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-07T14:04:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"762\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Silvia Hassouna\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Silvia Hassouna\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Silvia Hassouna\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0b527d7a6ea3508b64e06e4ce7b463c0\"},\"headline\":\"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-07T14:04:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":8,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"literature\",\"Palestine\",\"Palestinian art\",\"SWANA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/\",\"name\":\"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-07T14:04:33+00:00\",\"description\":\"An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":762,\"caption\":\"\\\"Wild flowers of Palestine,\\\" dry plate negatives, 12.7\u00d717.78cm, 1900 (courtesy Library of Congress).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0b527d7a6ea3508b64e06e4ce7b463c0\",\"name\":\"Silvia Hassouna\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6c51006e96cc330be53b62d75cfac19a2fe7c4039565214f18bf4ba059ba99c6?s=96&d=mm&r=gd99a488272e07a0e3d74fe826b84eb26\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6c51006e96cc330be53b62d75cfac19a2fe7c4039565214f18bf4ba059ba99c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6c51006e96cc330be53b62d75cfac19a2fe7c4039565214f18bf4ba059ba99c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Silvia Hassouna\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/silvia_hassouna\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine - The Markaz Review","description":"An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine","og_description":"An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-07T14:04:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":762,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Silvia Hassouna","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Silvia Hassouna","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/"},"author":{"name":"Silvia Hassouna","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/0b527d7a6ea3508b64e06e4ce7b463c0"},"headline":"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-07T14:04:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/"},"wordCount":8,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg","keywords":["literature","Palestine","Palestinian art","SWANA"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/","name":"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-07T14:04:33+00:00","description":"An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg","width":1024,"height":762,"caption":"\"Wild flowers of Palestine,\" dry plate negatives, 12.7\u00d717.78cm, 1900 (courtesy Library of Congress)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/0b527d7a6ea3508b64e06e4ce7b463c0","name":"Silvia Hassouna","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c51006e96cc330be53b62d75cfac19a2fe7c4039565214f18bf4ba059ba99c6?s=96&d=mm&r=gd99a488272e07a0e3d74fe826b84eb26","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c51006e96cc330be53b62d75cfac19a2fe7c4039565214f18bf4ba059ba99c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c51006e96cc330be53b62d75cfac19a2fe7c4039565214f18bf4ba059ba99c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Silvia Hassouna"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/silvia_hassouna\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Wild-Flowers-of-Palestine.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51193,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50834\/revisions\/51193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50834"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50834"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50652,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50652"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:07:35","slug":"the-last-barbary-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Barbary Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that make a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":50934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[5598,327,5595,1050,1119,1161,2852],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[4664],"coauthors":[5604],"class_list":["post-50652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-barbary-lion","tag-belonging","tag-extinction","tag-literature","tag-memory","tag-morocco","tag-swana","article-category-monthly","article-type-essay","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Last Barbary Lion - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Last Barbary Lion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-14T07:07:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1133\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"noam keim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"noam keim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"15 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"noam keim\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7bb0cb990e640e51476e0f74edd872f1\"},\"headline\":\"The Last Barbary Lion\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-14T07:07:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":4,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Barbary lion\",\"belonging\",\"extinction\",\"literature\",\"memory\",\"Morocco\",\"SWANA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Last Barbary Lion - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-14T07:07:35+00:00\",\"description\":\"Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1133,\"caption\":\"Murat Germen, Muta-morphosis Marrakech #102,,\u201d stitched photograph, 85\u00d7150cm, 2011 (courtesy the artist)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-last-barbary-lion\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Last Barbary Lion\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7bb0cb990e640e51476e0f74edd872f1\",\"name\":\"noam keim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3e093bd244ebb7f3a6fe14e47f28522952234bd023d396eb3fcad92240c5485f?s=96&d=mm&r=g8c8f66976899dfecb2420e6bb4be355d\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3e093bd244ebb7f3a6fe14e47f28522952234bd023d396eb3fcad92240c5485f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3e093bd244ebb7f3a6fe14e47f28522952234bd023d396eb3fcad92240c5485f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"noam keim\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/noam_keim\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Last Barbary Lion - The Markaz Review","description":"Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Last Barbary Lion","og_description":"Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-14T07:07:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":1133,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"noam keim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"noam keim","Est. reading time":"15 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/"},"author":{"name":"noam keim","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/7bb0cb990e640e51476e0f74edd872f1"},"headline":"The Last Barbary Lion","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:07:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/"},"wordCount":4,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg","keywords":["Barbary lion","belonging","extinction","literature","memory","Morocco","SWANA"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/","name":"The Last Barbary Lion - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:07:35+00:00","description":"Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg","width":2000,"height":1133,"caption":"Murat Germen, Muta-morphosis Marrakech #102,,\u201d stitched photograph, 85\u00d7150cm, 2011 (courtesy the artist)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-last-barbary-lion\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Last Barbary Lion"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/7bb0cb990e640e51476e0f74edd872f1","name":"noam keim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e093bd244ebb7f3a6fe14e47f28522952234bd023d396eb3fcad92240c5485f?s=96&d=mm&r=g8c8f66976899dfecb2420e6bb4be355d","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e093bd244ebb7f3a6fe14e47f28522952234bd023d396eb3fcad92240c5485f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e093bd244ebb7f3a6fe14e47f28522952234bd023d396eb3fcad92240c5485f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"noam keim"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/noam_keim\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/muta-morphosis_marrakesh_copyright_murat-germen_2011.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51322,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50652\/revisions\/51322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50652"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50652"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50652"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50624,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50624"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:09:42","slug":"what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasser’s work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1612,"featured_media":51057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[5589,448,1032,1119,3729,1288,2852,5590],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[4666],"coauthors":[5603],"class_list":["post-50624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-colonial-violence","tag-contemporary-art","tag-lebanon","tag-memory","tag-mourning","tag-palestine","tag-swana","tag-witnessing","article-category-monthly","article-type-interviews","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-11T08:09:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1708\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Samira Makki\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Samira Makki\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"18 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Samira Makki\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1679eec1afaf2238d1c10ce27faa2087\"},\"headline\":\"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-11T08:09:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":9,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"colonial violence\",\"Contemporary art\",\"Lebanon\",\"memory\",\"mourning\",\"Palestine\",\"SWANA\",\"witnessing\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/\",\"name\":\"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-11T08:09:42+00:00\",\"description\":\"Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1708},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1679eec1afaf2238d1c10ce27faa2087\",\"name\":\"Samira Makki\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/375d222a58ce9e00b7b491fea477a132ba631b96b0223ddb066b9a302d32bb99?s=96&d=mm&r=g03d11c3da004cf216a17b79193cd5f92\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/375d222a58ce9e00b7b491fea477a132ba631b96b0223ddb066b9a302d32bb99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/375d222a58ce9e00b7b491fea477a132ba631b96b0223ddb066b9a302d32bb99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Samira Makki\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/samira_makki\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser - The Markaz Review","description":"Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser","og_description":"Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-11T08:09:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1708,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Samira Makki","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Samira Makki","Est. reading time":"18 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/"},"author":{"name":"Samira Makki","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1679eec1afaf2238d1c10ce27faa2087"},"headline":"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-11T08:09:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/"},"wordCount":9,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg","keywords":["colonial violence","Contemporary art","Lebanon","memory","mourning","Palestine","SWANA","witnessing"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/","name":"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:23+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-11T08:09:42+00:00","description":"Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art\u2019s possibilities in the face of loss.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1708},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1679eec1afaf2238d1c10ce27faa2087","name":"Samira Makki","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/375d222a58ce9e00b7b491fea477a132ba631b96b0223ddb066b9a302d32bb99?s=96&d=mm&r=g03d11c3da004cf216a17b79193cd5f92","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/375d222a58ce9e00b7b491fea477a132ba631b96b0223ddb066b9a302d32bb99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/375d222a58ce9e00b7b491fea477a132ba631b96b0223ddb066b9a302d32bb99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Samira Makki"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/samira_makki\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-DalaNasser-008-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51286,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50624\/revisions\/51286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50624"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50624"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50624"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":51078,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=51078"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:50:40","slug":"monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1492,"featured_media":51110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[2857,1007,1050,2852],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[4660],"coauthors":[5560],"class_list":["post-51078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-anthropocene","tag-kuwait","tag-literature","tag-swana","article-category-monthly","article-type-featured-artist","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nour Annan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nour Annan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nour Annan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2503c63287d59c4c4dd4832947a3c9f8\"},\"headline\":\"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":8,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anthropocene\",\"Kuwait\",\"literature\",\"SWANA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/\",\"name\":\"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:20+00:00\",\"description\":\"A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1333},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2503c63287d59c4c4dd4832947a3c9f8\",\"name\":\"Nour Annan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6ac1fb9918239909bd9e3cf8053230bae1a9257e065967c277db2f37f4de855?s=96&d=mm&r=g4ec11d06b382e54a28664d4ac63a5c75\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6ac1fb9918239909bd9e3cf8053230bae1a9257e065967c277db2f37f4de855?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6ac1fb9918239909bd9e3cf8053230bae1a9257e065967c277db2f37f4de855?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nour Annan\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/nourannan\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future - The Markaz Review","description":"A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future","og_description":"A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":1333,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nour Annan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nour Annan","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/"},"author":{"name":"Nour Annan","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/2503c63287d59c4c4dd4832947a3c9f8"},"headline":"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/"},"wordCount":8,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg","keywords":["Anthropocene","Kuwait","literature","SWANA"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/","name":"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:20+00:00","description":"A self-described \u201cdystopian artist\u201d creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg","width":2000,"height":1333},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Monira Al Qadiri\u2019s Relics of the Future"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/2503c63287d59c4c4dd4832947a3c9f8","name":"Nour Annan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6ac1fb9918239909bd9e3cf8053230bae1a9257e065967c277db2f37f4de855?s=96&d=mm&r=g4ec11d06b382e54a28664d4ac63a5c75","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6ac1fb9918239909bd9e3cf8053230bae1a9257e065967c277db2f37f4de855?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6ac1fb9918239909bd9e3cf8053230bae1a9257e065967c277db2f37f4de855?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nour Annan"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/nourannan\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-Monira-al-Qadiri-Alien-Technology-2014-Dubai-6_RESIZED.jpg.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51129,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078\/revisions\/51129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51078"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=51078"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=51078"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50628,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50628"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:47:55","slug":"inhuman-resources-selected-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":50949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[549,596,5593,1050,5592,2852,1784],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[5005],"coauthors":[5591],"class_list":["post-50628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-ecology","tag-empire","tag-extraction","tag-literature","tag-militarization","tag-swana","tag-war","article-category-monthly","article-type-poetry","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2426\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1366\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Maya Salameh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maya Salameh\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Maya Salameh\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d494fe6bd1afc217638599e6bad66ed8\"},\"headline\":\"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":4,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ecology\",\"empire\",\"extraction\",\"literature\",\"militarization\",\"SWANA\",\"war\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/\",\"name\":\"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:14+00:00\",\"description\":\"A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg\",\"width\":2426,\"height\":1366,\"caption\":\"Mahmoud Sabri, \\\"People,\\\" oil on canvas, 44x59.3cm, 1953 (courtesy Mathaf).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d494fe6bd1afc217638599e6bad66ed8\",\"name\":\"Maya Salameh\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d957fac6ffc24c28761d673e653cf9d441df62564682e95051d7fa7136f69178?s=96&d=mm&r=g9d7e1ff0499149e821a97aa915a7c8a3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d957fac6ffc24c28761d673e653cf9d441df62564682e95051d7fa7136f69178?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d957fac6ffc24c28761d673e653cf9d441df62564682e95051d7fa7136f69178?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Maya Salameh\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/maya_salameh\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems - The Markaz Review","description":"A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems","og_description":"A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2426,"height":1366,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Maya Salameh","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Maya Salameh","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/"},"author":{"name":"Maya Salameh","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/d494fe6bd1afc217638599e6bad66ed8"},"headline":"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/"},"wordCount":4,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg","keywords":["ecology","empire","extraction","literature","militarization","SWANA","war"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/","name":"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:14+00:00","description":"A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg","width":2426,"height":1366,"caption":"Mahmoud Sabri, \"People,\" oil on canvas, 44x59.3cm, 1953 (courtesy Mathaf)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/inhuman-resources-selected-poems\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"INHUMAN RESOURCES\u2014selected poems"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/d494fe6bd1afc217638599e6bad66ed8","name":"Maya Salameh","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d957fac6ffc24c28761d673e653cf9d441df62564682e95051d7fa7136f69178?s=96&d=mm&r=g9d7e1ff0499149e821a97aa915a7c8a3","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d957fac6ffc24c28761d673e653cf9d441df62564682e95051d7fa7136f69178?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d957fac6ffc24c28761d673e653cf9d441df62564682e95051d7fa7136f69178?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Maya Salameh"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/maya_salameh\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TMR-MahmoudSabri-Mathaf.2007.1.261.2e16d0ba.fill-2426x1366-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51143,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions\/51143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50611,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50611"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:51:25","slug":"the-belt-starter-a-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":51076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5597],"tags":[2857,959,1050,2852,1794],"article-category":[4656],"article-type":[4662],"coauthors":[5606],"class_list":["post-50611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tmr-61-anthropocene","tag-anthropocene","tag-jordan","tag-literature","tag-swana","tag-water-ecology","article-category-monthly","article-type-fiction","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-04T10:00:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1279\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nour Shtayyeh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nour Shtayyeh\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"16 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nour Shtayyeh\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23716424c25cb0825238023ba3fec114\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":6,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anthropocene\",\"Jordan\",\"literature\",\"SWANA\",\"water ecology\"],\"articleSection\":[\"TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/\",\"name\":\"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-04T10:00:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1279},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23716424c25cb0825238023ba3fec114\",\"name\":\"Nour Shtayyeh\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fcb2a764e1961971c2ccc63a1ef1bc826fac660428f3be7d6e29907480b3432b?s=96&d=mm&r=g478284f4a565d599c874931161f6db37\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fcb2a764e1961971c2ccc63a1ef1bc826fac660428f3be7d6e29907480b3432b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fcb2a764e1961971c2ccc63a1ef1bc826fac660428f3be7d6e29907480b3432b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nour Shtayyeh\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/nour_shtayyeh\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story - The Markaz Review","description":"On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story","og_description":"On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-09-04T10:00:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1279,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nour Shtayyeh","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nour Shtayyeh","Est. reading time":"16 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/"},"author":{"name":"Nour Shtayyeh","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/23716424c25cb0825238023ba3fec114"},"headline":"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/"},"wordCount":6,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg","keywords":["Anthropocene","Jordan","literature","SWANA","water ecology"],"articleSection":["TMR 61 \u2022 ANTHROPOCENE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/","name":"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg","datePublished":"2026-09-04T10:00:12+00:00","description":"On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg","width":2560,"height":1279},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/the-belt-starter-a-short-story\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u201cThe Belt Starter\u201d\u2014a short story"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/23716424c25cb0825238023ba3fec114","name":"Nour Shtayyeh","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcb2a764e1961971c2ccc63a1ef1bc826fac660428f3be7d6e29907480b3432b?s=96&d=mm&r=g478284f4a565d599c874931161f6db37","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcb2a764e1961971c2ccc63a1ef1bc826fac660428f3be7d6e29907480b3432b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcb2a764e1961971c2ccc63a1ef1bc826fac660428f3be7d6e29907480b3432b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nour Shtayyeh"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/nour_shtayyeh\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CROPPED_Nadia-Bseiso_Infertile-Crescent-1-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51077,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50611\/revisions\/51077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50611"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50611"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50611"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50747,"date":"2026-08-31T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50747"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:21:00","slug":"kaakat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":50803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[5609,4952,5608],"article-category":[4658],"article-type":[4662],"coauthors":[4954],"class_list":["post-50747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-5609","tag-4952","tag-5608","article-category-bil-arabi","article-type-fiction","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-31T10:00:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview--------------------626x1024.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"626\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"15 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/15d650116bb0d4d93e49d2498e999c02\"},\"headline\":\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-31T10:00:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":0,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-------------------.png\",\"keywords\":[\"\u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u062e\u0627\u0646\",\"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a\",\"\u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Fiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/\",\"name\":\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-------------------.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-31T10:00:33+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-------------------.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-------------------.png\",\"width\":981,\"height\":1604},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/kaakat\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/15d650116bb0d4d93e49d2498e999c02\",\"name\":\"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c180903424e19fc94a4c18e706e830fcc4b743d4c98f9f3425e6c7f279825e30?s=96&d=mm&r=g52354c18593745b99ad30462cd47fe95\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c180903424e19fc94a4c18e706e830fcc4b743d4c98f9f3425e6c7f279825e30?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c180903424e19fc94a4c18e706e830fcc4b743d4c98f9f3425e6c7f279825e30?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/belalhosny\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a - The Markaz Review","description":"\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a","og_description":"\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-08-31T10:00:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":626,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview--------------------626x1024.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a","Est. reading time":"15 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/"},"author":{"name":"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/15d650116bb0d4d93e49d2498e999c02"},"headline":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a","datePublished":"2026-08-31T10:00:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/"},"wordCount":0,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-------------------.png","keywords":["\u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u062e\u0627\u0646","\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a","\u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a"],"articleSection":["Fiction"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/","name":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-------------------.png","datePublished":"2026-08-31T10:00:33+00:00","description":"\u064a\u062a\u062c\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u0645\u0647\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u064a\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0643\u0644\u0628\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u0632\u0631\u0642\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u064b\u0627 \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645\u064b\u0627.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-------------------.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-------------------.png","width":981,"height":1604},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/kaakat\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a \u0643\u0639\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u062d\u0634\u064a"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/15d650116bb0d4d93e49d2498e999c02","name":"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c180903424e19fc94a4c18e706e830fcc4b743d4c98f9f3425e6c7f279825e30?s=96&d=mm&r=g52354c18593745b99ad30462cd47fe95","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c180903424e19fc94a4c18e706e830fcc4b743d4c98f9f3425e6c7f279825e30?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c180903424e19fc94a4c18e706e830fcc4b743d4c98f9f3425e6c7f279825e30?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062d\u0633\u0646\u064a"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/belalhosny\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-------------------.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50805,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747\/revisions\/50805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50747"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50747"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50747"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50614,"date":"2026-08-24T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50614"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:45:08","slug":"loloasawdaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1592,"featured_media":50649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[5587,3976,5586],"article-category":[4658],"article-type":[4823],"coauthors":[5588],"class_list":["post-50614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-5587","tag-3976","tag-5586","article-category-bil-arabi","article-type-short-story","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-24T10:00:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell-1024x685.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"685\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"13 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/63c1d34967e4d180a1830ed239307574\"},\"headline\":\"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-24T10:00:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":0,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png\",\"keywords\":[\"\u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f\",\"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629\",\"\u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Fiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/\",\"name\":\"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-24T10:00:44+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png\",\"width\":2146,\"height\":1436,\"caption\":\"Mixed media drawing of a shell by Mikhael Vrubel\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/loloasawdaa\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/63c1d34967e4d180a1830ed239307574\",\"name\":\"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8dcd83409574095dee264698304b2a35c767fd16681b6b64d2498ebd42bfd2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g2d8ac12cf8819b25ac838fd910bf3f65\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8dcd83409574095dee264698304b2a35c767fd16681b6b64d2498ebd42bfd2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8dcd83409574095dee264698304b2a35c767fd16681b6b64d2498ebd42bfd2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/abdalrahmanahmed\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 - The Markaz Review","description":"\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621","og_description":"\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-08-24T10:00:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":685,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell-1024x685.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f","Est. reading time":"13 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/"},"author":{"name":"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/63c1d34967e4d180a1830ed239307574"},"headline":"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621","datePublished":"2026-08-24T10:00:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/"},"wordCount":0,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png","keywords":["\u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f","\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629","\u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621"],"articleSection":["Fiction"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/","name":"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png","datePublished":"2026-08-24T10:00:44+00:00","description":"\u0647\u0644 \u064a\u0624\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0637\u064a\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u063a\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0627\u061f \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0647\u064a \u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0635\u0635 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png","width":2146,"height":1436,"caption":"Mixed media drawing of a shell by Mikhael Vrubel"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/loloasawdaa\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f: \u0644\u0624\u0644\u0624\u0629 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0621"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/63c1d34967e4d180a1830ed239307574","name":"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8dcd83409574095dee264698304b2a35c767fd16681b6b64d2498ebd42bfd2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g2d8ac12cf8819b25ac838fd910bf3f65","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8dcd83409574095dee264698304b2a35c767fd16681b6b64d2498ebd42bfd2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8dcd83409574095dee264698304b2a35c767fd16681b6b64d2498ebd42bfd2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"\u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/abdalrahmanahmed\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-mikhaelvrubel-shell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50650,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50614\/revisions\/50650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50614"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50614"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50614"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50529,"date":"2026-08-17T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?p=50529"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:19:47","slug":"tafteetalbashar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":50534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[5582,5581,4169,5404],"article-category":[4658],"article-type":[4662],"coauthors":[5409],"class_list":["post-50529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-5582","tag-5581","tag-4169","tag-5404","article-category-bil-arabi","article-type-fiction","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631 - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Markaz Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-17T10:00:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1963\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ce036fb2b2a76948e45cb1df5e08e8ab\"},\"headline\":\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-17T10:00:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":0,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"\u0628\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0643\u0645\u0629\",\"\u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\",\"\u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629\",\"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Fiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/\",\"name\":\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631 - The Markaz Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-17T10:00:06+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg\",\"width\":1963,\"height\":1500,\"caption\":\"Lithograph of a woman combing her hair in front of a mirror\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/tafteetalbashar\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"description\":\"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Markaz Review\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg\",\"width\":473,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"The Markaz Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ce036fb2b2a76948e45cb1df5e08e8ab\",\"name\":\"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/57c0599e8e6954b40335b3cecca2cfbf83ece60bb7d2cdbaff0b63fcf77506b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g0da1bef7a4f0433aac29e759502ffc06\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/57c0599e8e6954b40335b3cecca2cfbf83ece60bb7d2cdbaff0b63fcf77506b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/57c0599e8e6954b40335b3cecca2cfbf83ece60bb7d2cdbaff0b63fcf77506b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themarkaz.org\\\/author\\\/magedwaheeb\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631 - The Markaz Review","description":"\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631","og_description":"\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.","og_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/","og_site_name":"The Markaz Review","article_published_time":"2026-08-17T10:00:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1963,"height":1500,"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/"},"author":{"name":"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/ce036fb2b2a76948e45cb1df5e08e8ab"},"headline":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631","datePublished":"2026-08-17T10:00:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/"},"wordCount":0,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg","keywords":["\u0628\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0643\u0645\u0629","\u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631","\u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629","\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628"],"articleSection":["Fiction"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/","name":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631 - The Markaz Review","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg","datePublished":"2026-08-17T10:00:06+00:00","description":"\u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u0628\u0627\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0646\u062a\u0634\u0631\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0635\u0631\u060c \u064a\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0631\u0627\u0626\u0639\u0629\u060c \u062a\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0633\u0627\u062e\u0631.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg","width":1963,"height":1500,"caption":"Lithograph of a woman combing her hair in front of a mirror"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/tafteetalbashar\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u0645\u0642\u062a\u0637\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0641\u062a\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","name":"The Markaz Review","description":"Literature and Arts from the Center of the World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#organization","name":"The Markaz Review","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-New-2023-TMR-Logo-500-pix.jpg","width":473,"height":191,"caption":"The Markaz Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/#\/schema\/person\/ce036fb2b2a76948e45cb1df5e08e8ab","name":"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57c0599e8e6954b40335b3cecca2cfbf83ece60bb7d2cdbaff0b63fcf77506b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g0da1bef7a4f0433aac29e759502ffc06","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57c0599e8e6954b40335b3cecca2cfbf83ece60bb7d2cdbaff0b63fcf77506b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57c0599e8e6954b40335b3cecca2cfbf83ece60bb7d2cdbaff0b63fcf77506b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"\u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f \u0648\u0647\u064a\u0628"},"url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/author\/magedwaheeb\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/themarkazreview-Ann-Combing-Her-Hair-DavidHockney.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50557,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50529\/revisions\/50557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50529"},{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=50529"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=50529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]