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Illuminated Reading for 2024: Our Anticipated Titles

Illuminated Reading for 2024: Our Anticipated Titles

Four editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.

22 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
War Weariness & Absurdity in Jamaluddin Aram’s Debut Novel

War Weariness & Absurdity in Jamaluddin Aram’s Debut Novel

Something beyond war-weariness informs Jamaluddin Aram’s depiction of 1990s Afghanistan in his debut novel, writes Rudi Heinrich.

15 JANUARY 2024 • By Rudi Heinrich
An Iranian Novelist Seeks the Truth About a Plane Crash

An Iranian Novelist Seeks the Truth About a Plane Crash

Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.

15 JANUARY 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
The Rebels of Football, Then and Now

The Rebels of Football, Then and Now

Justin Salhani argues that the "beautiful game" has been a powerful instrument of emancipation for workers, feminists and...

8 JANUARY 2024 • By Justin Olivier Salhani
Inside Hamas: From Resistance to Regime

Inside Hamas: From Resistance to Regime

An exclusive excerpt from the 2023 title "Hamas: From Resistance to Regime" by Paola Caridi, translated by Andrea...

25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Paola Caridi
Assassination in Malta: How They Killed My Mother

Assassination in Malta: How They Killed My Mother

Teodor Reljić reviews Paul Caruana Galizia's book in which he dissects the Maltese status quo that led to...

11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Teodor Reljić
Tone—Literary Criticism to Challenge the Mind

Tone—Literary Criticism to Challenge the Mind

Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno indulge in a collective reading and writing practice to capture literary tone, writes...

11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Safa Khatib
Huda Fakhreddine’s A Brief Time Under a Different Sun

Huda Fakhreddine’s A Brief Time Under a Different Sun

Exclusive excerpt from Huda Fahreddine's "A Brief Time Under a Different Sun," translated from the Arabic by Rana...

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Huda J. Fakhreddine
On the Herculean Task of Translating Joyce’s Ulysses into Kurdish

On the Herculean Task of Translating Joyce’s Ulysses into Kurdish

Kawa Nemir felt he'd been preparing to undertake the translation of James Joyce's masterpiece his whole life...

28 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Kaya Genç
First Kurdish Sci-Fi Collection is Rooted in the Past

First Kurdish Sci-Fi Collection is Rooted in the Past

Matt Broomfield reviews the first anthology of Kurdish science fiction, one that envisions new possibilities for Kurdish self-determination.

28 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Matt Broomfield
My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story...

13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
Editors’ Palestinian Lit List

Editors’ Palestinian Lit List

The editors of The Markaz Review recommended 20 of the best contemporary Palestinian novels, story collections and nonfiction.

6 NOVEMBER 2023 • By TMR
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