Adib Rahhal reviews Hisham Matar's latest novel, in which the precariousness of existence and Libya serve as springboards.
25 MARCH 2024 • By Adib RahhalTMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, offers four books to challenge the world as we know it.
3 MARCH 2024 • By Rana AsfourArie Amaya-Akkermans reviews "The West: a new history of an old idea" that argues how the West was...
3 MARCH 2024 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansKatie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.
3 MARCH 2024 • By Katie LoganNazli Tarzi reviews a book that challenges the uncritical view of eyeliner as a mere “exercise in vanity”...
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12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina MounzerSean Casey on a rather unusual and remarkable debut from Arthur Kayzakian that melds poetry, prose and correspondence.
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Sean CaseyLina Mounzer reviews the new book by Anna Lekas Miller that gathers stories of love- and border-challenged couples.
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina MounzerFour editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.
22 JANUARY 2024 • By TMRSomething beyond war-weariness informs Jamaluddin Aram’s depiction of 1990s Afghanistan in his debut novel, writes Rudi Heinrich.
15 JANUARY 2024 • By Rudi HeinrichNovelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.
15 JANUARY 2024 • By Sepideh FarkhondehJustin Salhani argues that the "beautiful game" has been a powerful instrument of emancipation for workers, feminists and...
8 JANUARY 2024 • By Justin Olivier Salhani