World Picks from the Editors: Mar 8 — Mar 22
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
The featured artist for the March 2024 BURN IT ALL DOWN issue is Reza Abedini.
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
A selection of events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from the editors of TMR.
A Twitter post by Fadi Quran reveals the reality on the ground these days trying to get around the West Bank.
Four editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.
The war reminds us that Palestinians are also artists and not merely people perishing under the bombs and mortars.
Though it ended on catastrophe, with the war in Gaza, the editors of The Markaz Review recall their favorites of the year.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several cultural world events.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several of the best cultural events happening now around the world.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several world events.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommended 20 of the best contemporary Palestinian novels, story collections and nonfiction.
Hisham Bustani and Linda Al Khoury talk to TMR about their new bilingual book and the urban distortions they bear witness to in Amman, Jordan.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several world events and books.
Prefacing our special Palestine issue, senior editor Lina Mounzer attempts to express the horror that has become the reality in Gaza.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommends several world events from Oct 13 — Oct 27, 2023.
The editors of The Markaz Review made the difficult choice of selecting just two of their go-to public intellectuals.
Adel Abidin is an Iraqi-Finnish artist who explores history, memory and identity in his installations, painting, drawings and videos.
A Markaz Review bi-weekly roundup of our editors' favorite selections from within the global arts and culture scene.
TMR publishes World Picks special edition on its third anniversary, including events from Sept. 15-26, 2023.
The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite the two-week extravaganza.
Sept. 8-10, Exist Festival in London features film, talks, music, performance & dance; Sept. 6-14, also in London at the Mosaic Rooms, check out "In the Shade of the Sun."
Nasrin Abu Baker, the featured artist for June 2023, divides her time between Jerusalem and Leipzig, and exhibits widely.
Artist Salman Toor paints immigrants and addresses the treatment of brown men and young people in public and private spaces. He is also concerned with the effects of technology on contemporary life.
Impressive art, films, sounds and smells among the ultra modern and ancient treasures housed at the National Museum of Qatar.
Bird photographer Hamad Al Khualifi devoted years to documenting the wildlife of Qatar, once reportedly spending two years in the wild to document a Pharaoh Eagle-Owl.
The featured artist for March is Franco-Iranian painter Nazanin Pouyandeh, whose rich figurative paintings are showing in two major French exhibitions.
The devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have left a wake of dead and suffering survivors. We can help.
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
A journalist in Tehran walks defiantly without covering her hair through one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.
In our Letters From Tehran series, Iranians write intimately about daily life in the city following last fall's Women-Life-Freedom protests.
Author and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi must be released by Iranian authorities immediately.
One of Iran's contemporary writers shares his thoughts with a friend in the west about the direction the country is going as a result of the Mahsa Amini protests.
Poems from Iranian poets in Iran and diaspora, from a new anthology edited by Christopher Nelson and introduced by Kaveh Bassiri.
Our poetry editor, Sholeh Wolpé, has selected two poems from the new collection from one of Canada's most lauded poets.
In the new issue of TMR, the editors present their case for everyday women achieving the extraordinary as they overcome adversity.
In HEROINES, artists pay homage to the late Mahsa Jhina Amini and the women-led uprising for freedom in Iran.
The world may be driving us crazy, but sharing our stories across cultures and borders is one way to hang on to our sanity.
The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and borders.
For our 21st monthly issue, TMR features the work of an artist who is continually working out what it means to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
A young artisan from Taroudant, Morocco now calls Los Angeles home and brings a particular flare to shoe design.
In a blast from Hollywood's colorful past, Lebanese American writer Fred Saidy remembers Mrs. Nazralla's exquisite baklava, and her loquacious manner.
Syrian and Armenian American John Nazarian was for decades a champion of those who struggled in Los Angeles.
Musician-composer Dimitris Mahlis celebrates multiple oud traditions as he offers TMR listeners two meditative taksim.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is home to a major new arts and cultural center, opening to the public on December 6, 2021.
Here are a few staff picks in a very short list that could benefit from having us add your own fire-related titles. Come on, light our fire.
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Rana Asfour, Book Editor at The Markaz Review, and the TMR Bookgroup talk to author Omar El Akkad about his second novel What Strange Paradise.
During the long Gaddafi years, Libya produced many exiles, among them the satirical cartoonist and illustrator Hasan “Alsatoor” Dhaimish.
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.