In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West...
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Badar Salem
The Markaz Review presents a rare piece of prose in English translation from Kurdish writer Shalaw Habiba, translated...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Shalaw Habiba
In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...
26 JULY 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
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
In this short story by Nektaria Anastasiadou, the male and female terebinth trees of a Levantine childhood help...
5 JULY 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and...
5 JULY 2024 • By Qais Akbar Omar
Omani writer Hamoud Saud’s short story “A Blind Window on Childhood” translated from Arabic by Zia Ahmed, reveals...
5 JULY 2024 • By Hamoud Saud
In Natasha Tynes’ new short story, “The Lakshmi of Suburbia,” an unhappy wife falls in love with herself...
5 JULY 2024 • By Natasha Tynes
In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a...
5 JULY 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
The more things change, the more they become strange, or so finds the confused narrator of this Kafkaesque...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohamed Farag
