Lebanon's garbage crisis inspired a futurist film but the 2020 Port Explosion made it a contemporary dystopia.
1 MAY 2023 • By Meera SanthanamMireille Rebeiz remembers her Tante Rose and the lore of Armenian culture-history in Lebanon, where forgetting is endemic.
17 APRIL 2023 • By Mireille RebeizFranco-Egyptian filmmaker Karim Goury reviews the new feature film from Franco-Israeli director Michael Boganim.
20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim GouryKarim Goury talks to the director of the new feature film on war, love and borders, Tel Aviv-Beirut.
20 MARCH 2023 • By Karim GouryRana Asfour reviews a collection of stories from writer and educator Zein El-Amine, who was born and raised...
20 MARCH 2023 • By Rana AsfourIn the midst of Lebanon's economic crisis, UN policy and research specialist Ghida Ismail laments the vanishing of...
13 MARCH 2023 • By Ghida IsmailAmal Ghandour, author of "This Arab Life," casts her penetrating gaze on the burdens of Lebanon, including the...
13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Amal GhandourEvelyne Accad reviews a new book on Lebanese women and war, a collection of oral stories told in...
13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Evelyne AccadArie Amaya-Akkermans reflects on Lamia Joreige's "Uncertain Times," which represents the Lebanese wars and their aftermath.
23 JANUARY 2023 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansThe Markaz Review recommends the following exhibitions, on now in Paris, New York, Montpellier, London, Marseille and Beirut.
12 DECEMBER 2022 • By TMRMariam Elnozahy reviews the new exhibit at London's Mosaic Rooms that looks at ecology and politics in Lebanon.
28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Ali al-MuqriIn these stories from his impassioned memoir, Steve Sabella works to decolonize the mind and liberate his identity.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Nawal Nasrallah