Academic and novelist Layla AlAmmar interrogates her life's creative and scholarly achievements against the teachings of Edward Said.
9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Layla AlAmmar
Public intellectuals no longer exist, argues Moustafa Bayoumi; they have been usurped by "influencers."
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Moustafa Bayoumi
The editors of The Markaz Review made the difficult choice of selecting just two of their go-to public...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By TMR
Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
Nektaria Anastasiadou writes about her decision to pen her works using the historically fractured language of the Istanbul...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
In Farah Ahamed's latest satire, one man's misunderstood greatness drives him to take preposterous action.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Farah Ahamed
Deborah Lindsey Williams Writing in the early part of the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville observed...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Deborah Williams
Dalia Sofer reviews Reza Aslan's latest book on American Howard Baskerville, "martyred" alongside revolutionary students in Iran in...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dalia Sofer
In Hisham Bustani’s new short story, one man’s religious nightmare brings him face to face with an unlikely...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Hisham Bustani
Twenty years ago, argues Amal Ghandour, it would have been Edward Said. It’s Traboulsi, his best translator, in...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Amal Ghandour
Deborah Kapchan calls for public intellectuals who can speak in many registers amidst the rise of attacks on...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Deborah Kapchan
In her new book, Dima Issa argues that the influence of Lebanese vocal artist Fairouz on the Arab...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dima Issa
