Jordan Elgrably

is an American, French, and Moroccan writer and translator. His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many anthologies and reviews, including Apulée, Salmagundi, and the Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). He is the editor of Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights 2024), and co-editor with Malu Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories Press 2025). Based in Montpellier, France and California, he tweets at Blue Sky.

The Editor’s Letter Following the US 2024 Presidential Election

The Editor’s Letter Following the US 2024 Presidential Election

The Markaz Review responds to the results of the 2024 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump prevailed...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Aïda Nosrat of Atine: Artist at Work

Aïda Nosrat of Atine: Artist at Work

Jordan Elgrably interviews free-spirited Iranian performer Aïda Nosrat on music, exile, freedom, and a passion for mixing cultures.

11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth

Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth

Israel’s war on Gaza and Palestinians in the West Bank has prompted dissent around the world that refuses...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Protected: 12 SEPTEMBRE 2024 Communiqué de presse

Protected: 12 SEPTEMBRE 2024 Communiqué de presse

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12 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Why GATEKEEPERS?

Why GATEKEEPERS?

Free speech for the Middle East and North Africa — voices from across the center of the world...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Soudade Kaadan: Filmmaker Interview

Soudade Kaadan: Filmmaker Interview

Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan is a jury member of the 81st Venice Film Festival, and the only Arab woman...

30 AUGUST 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Woe to the Conquered: Selim Temo’s Nightlands

Woe to the Conquered: Selim Temo’s Nightlands

Kurdish poetry abounds but rarely appears in English. Jordan Elgrably reviews a bilingual English-Kurdish edition of Selim Temo's...

9 AUGUST 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Why FORGETTING?

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...

3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably
Magyd Cherfi’s French Journey, from Musical Stardom to Novelist

Magyd Cherfi’s French Journey, from Musical Stardom to Novelist

The Franco-Algerian star of Zebda, a major pop band 1985-2015, has become a writer to reckon with, in...

18 APRIL 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Why Paris?

Why Paris?

Jordan Elgrably explores a PARIS issue from the perspective of Arab and Middle Eastern residents.

1 APRIL 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences,...

1 APRIL 2024 • By TMR, Jordan Elgrably
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

With genocidal violence raging in Gaza and muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices throughout France, Ariella Azoulay's word is now...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes, Jordan Elgrably
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