In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that...
2 JULY 2023 • By Rawand Issa
A fiction that celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who embrace their agency.
2 JULY 2023 • By Bint Magdaliyya
Sometimes you have to escape everything you know in order to become yourself.
2 JULY 2023 • By Abdellah Taïa
In Ghadeer Ahmed's latest story, three women with no abortion rights refuse to be victims of exploitation and...
2 JULY 2023 • By Ghadeer Ahmed
The power of the imagination may not be enough to save a young girl’s hopes when faced with...
2 JULY 2023 • By Mona Al-Shammari
In an excerpt from an unpublished novella by Malu Halasa, ice skating in the desert is more than...
2 JULY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Samira Azzam was a Palestinian short story writer whose work influenced her more famous successor, Ghassan Kanafani.
2 JULY 2023 • By Samira Azzam
In this excerpt from Shady Lewis Botros' latest novel, a child’s innocent counting game masks a disturbing reality.
2 JULY 2023 • By Shady Lewis Botros
Christina Paschyn talks to queer activists in the Gulf who challenge the Western narrative on oppression and freedom...
26 JUNE 2023 • By Christina Paschyn
A walk through London’s Hackney Marshes calls forth stories of Gaza, the Nile, the Sindhu River and the...
19 JUNE 2023 • By Bint Mbareh
The editors explain why they chose the EARTH theme for the 32nd issue of The Markaz Review.
4 JUNE 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
In a dystopian world, thanks to AI, people no longer die because they can be upgraded to better...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Fadi Zaghmout
