Editorial

A Year of War Without End

A Year of War Without End

In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Why GATEKEEPERS?

Why GATEKEEPERS?

Free speech for the Middle East and North Africa — voices from across the center of the world...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Why Summer Fiction? For the Wonders & Miracles

Why Summer Fiction? For the Wonders & Miracles

Our literary editor takes us on a deluxe reader's tour of the stories behind the stories in the...

5 JULY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Why Theatre?—an Editorial

Why Theatre?—an Editorial

In which the editors of The Markaz Review and playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak present the theatre issue.

7 JUNE 2024 • By TMR
Why FORGETTING?

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...

3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Why Paris?

Why Paris?

Editor Jordan Elgrably muses on a PARIS issue mostly from the viewpoint of its Arab and Middle Eastern...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Why “Burn It all Down”?

Why “Burn It all Down”?

Senior editor Lina Mounzer articulates the inexpressible, inconsolable feelings at a time when genocide is occurring before the...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Shoot That Poison Arrow to My Heart: The LSD Editorial

Shoot That Poison Arrow to My Heart: The LSD Editorial

Our literary editor, Malu Halasa, introduces TMR 38 • LSD, our Love, Sex and Desire issue, published ahead of...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Why Endings & Beginnings?

Why Endings & Beginnings?

An editorial from the editor in chief as we close the end of an often painful, difficult and...

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
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
Palestine and the Unspeakable

Palestine and the Unspeakable

Prefacing our special Palestine issue, senior editor Lina Mounzer attempts to express the horror that has become the...

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Lina Mounzer
Stories From The Markaz, Stories From the Center

Stories From The Markaz, Stories From the Center

TMR's literary editor introduces the 2023 double summer literary issue.

2 JULY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
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