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Category: Essays

1 October, 2023 • Moustafa Bayoumi

The Vanishing of the Public Intellectual

Public intellectuals no longer exist, argues Moustafa Bayoumi; they have been ursurped by "influencers."

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1 October, 2023 • Layla AlAmmar

Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Academic and novelist Layla AlAmmar interrogates her life's creative and scholarly achievements against the teachings of Edward Said.

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1 October, 2023 • TMR

Editors’ Picks: Public Intellectuals

The editors of The Markaz Review made the difficult choice of selecting just two of their go-to public intellectuals.

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1 October, 2023 • Salar Abdoh

The Contemporary Literary Scene in Iran

Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.

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1 October, 2023 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

In and Between Languages: Writing on the Fault Line

Nektaria Anastasiadou writes about her decision to pen her works using the historically fractured language of the Istanbul dialect of Greek.

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1 October, 2023 • Deborah Kapchan

The Task of the Public Intellectual? Translation

Deborah Kapchan calls for public intellectuals who can speak in many registers amidst the rise of attacks on intellectualism everywhere.

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1 October, 2023 • Amal Ghandour

Why Fawwaz Traboulsi?

Twenty years ago, argues Amal Ghandour, it would have been Edward Said. It’s Traboulsi, his best translator, in 2023.

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1 October, 2023 • Dima Issa

Fairouz: The Peacemaker and Champion of Palestine

In her new book, Dima Issa argues that the influence of Lebanese vocal artist Fairouz on the Arab diaspora has been profound.

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1 October, 2023 • Yasmine El Rashidi

Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Political Prisoner and Public Intellectual

Yasmine Al Rashidi on writer-thinker Alaa Abdel Fattah who advocates for the rights of those without platforms to campaign for themselves.

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25 September, 2023 • Aomar Boum

Donkeys and Mules—Motors of the High Atlas Mountains

Aomar Boom describes the centrality of donkeys and mules to life in the unforgiving earthquake-shattered terrain of the High Atlas Mountains.

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25 September, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight

Brahim El Guabli argues that Morocco's disaster survivors must be able to communicate in their mother tongue.

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18 September, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Memory Art: Water and Islands in the Work of Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Arie Amaya-Akkermans does a deep dive into the fascinating career of Istanbul-born Greek Armenian artist Hera Büyüktaşçıyan.

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