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“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...

5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
Victoria — An Excerpt

Victoria — An Excerpt

We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya...

5 JULY 2024 • By Karoline Kamel
The Top 12 Books to Read This Summer

The Top 12 Books to Read This Summer

Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick...

5 JULY 2024 • By Rana Asfour
The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami

The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami

The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...

5 JULY 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Ripped from Memoirs of a Lebanese Policeman

Ripped from Memoirs of a Lebanese Policeman

True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina...

5 JULY 2024 • By Fawzi Zabyan
Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with...

5 JULY 2024 • By Katie Logan
Upheavals of Beauty and Oppression in The Oud Player of Cairo

Upheavals of Beauty and Oppression in The Oud Player of Cairo

Jasmin Attia's novel vividly portrays Egypt and Cairo by beautifully conjuring music and sound through descriptive prose.

28 JUNE 2024 • By Tala Jarjour
Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...

28 JUNE 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
The Battle for Climate Justice vs. Environmental Orientalism

The Battle for Climate Justice vs. Environmental Orientalism

Little-reported green colonialism is occurring in the sun-rich but water-deprived MENA region, writes Richard Lim in this review.

21 JUNE 2024 • By Richard Lim
Is Amin Maalouf’s Latest Novel, On the Isle of Antioch, a Parody?

Is Amin Maalouf’s Latest Novel, On the Isle of Antioch, a Parody?

Farah-Silvana Kanan questions whether, in this novel, the Franco-Lebanese master is at the height of his powers, or...

14 JUNE 2024 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Theatre is the Thing: TMR’s Best-Books List

Theatre is the Thing: TMR’s Best-Books List

Editors at The Markaz Review recommend twelve titles published over a 20-year period presenting a broad range of...

7 JUNE 2024 • By TMR
A Bicentennial Remembrance of Lord Byron, Among Greeks & Turks

A Bicentennial Remembrance of Lord Byron, Among Greeks & Turks

Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world...

7 JUNE 2024 • By William Gourlay
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