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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 diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
5 JULY 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina...
5 JULY 2024 • By Fawzi Zabyan
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
Jasmin Attia's novel vividly portrays Egypt and Cairo by beautifully conjuring music and sound through descriptive prose.
28 JUNE 2024 • By Tala Jarjour
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
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
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
Editors at The Markaz Review recommend twelve titles published over a 20-year period presenting a broad range of...
7 JUNE 2024 • By TMR
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world...
7 JUNE 2024 • By William Gourlay