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Creating Community with Community Theatre

Creating Community with Community Theatre

A community theatre company working in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine empowers women who often are not professional actors.

21 JUNE 2024 • By Victoria Lupton
They/Them: Identify Yourself Immediately

They/Them: Identify Yourself Immediately

The mechanical obligation to reveal one's origin during French conversation is not only tedious, but downright boring, writes...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Sabah Haider
Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking

Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, offers four books to challenge the world as we know it.

3 MARCH 2024 • By Rana Asfour
Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

After the ICJ ruling on Israel, it is in its best interests to redefine its cause to one...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
New Palestinian Poster Art Responds to War and Apartheid

New Palestinian Poster Art Responds to War and Apartheid

Curator Nadine Aranki presents posters by new and established artists, writers and graphic designers, in the service of...

26 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Nadine Aranki
Driving in Palestine Now is More Dangerous Than Ever

Driving in Palestine Now is More Dangerous Than Ever

A Twitter post by Fadi Quran reveals the reality on the ground these days trying to get around...

29 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
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
A Student’s Tribute to Refaat Alareer, Gaza’s Beloved Storyteller

A Student’s Tribute to Refaat Alareer, Gaza’s Beloved Storyteller

Killed in Gaza by the Israeli military, Refaat Alareer's spirit and words continue to live on in his...

18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Yousef M. Aljamal
Messages from Gaza Now / 2

Messages from Gaza Now / 2

Firsthand accounts of the war by Hossam Madhoun, a theatre-maker reporting from the rubble of Gaza.

18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages From Gaza Now

Messages From Gaza Now

A Gazan theatre artist, constantly endangered by the onslaught of Israeli planes, drones and bombs, writes from the...

11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
The Day My Life Ended, It Began

The Day My Life Ended, It Began

What could have been the end of life was instead a milestone that led to the writer's greatest...

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Karim Shamshi-Basha
Remembering Khaled Khalifa on the 40th Day

Remembering Khaled Khalifa on the 40th Day

For the 40th day from his death, Youssef Rakha considers fellow writer Khaled Khalifa in the context of...

7 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Youssef Rakha
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