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Novelist Rabih Alameddine in conversation with Dima Alzayat | The Markaz Review

This online event is free to the public. RSVPs are required. REGISTER HERE.   Rabih Alameddine. Rabih Alameddine, winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for his latest novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, will be in conversation with short story author Dima Alzayat (Alligator & Other Stories) for The Markaz Review, on Friday, May… Continue reading Novelist Rabih Alameddine in conversation with Dima Alzayat | The Markaz Review

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Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha, in conversation with Mary Karr

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Register Here (Free Event)   Takes place at 12 noon Pacific/3 pm Eastern/20:00 UK/21:00 CET   The Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha, published by City Lights Books. This is a virtual… Continue reading Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha, in conversation with Mary Karr

The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East, May 17-18 (Free)

  Register Here    Start: May 17th at 10 AM End: May 18th at 6 PM Cost: Free The Middle East Institute’s Arts and Culture Center and The Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation in partnership with the Cheuse Center for International Writers at George Mason University present a two-day, virtual literature festival featuring writers… Continue reading The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East, May 17-18 (Free)

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Joumana Haddad’s “The Book of Queens” with Radical Books & TMR

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Register Here (Free Event)       This online event takes place June 4, 2022 at 12 noon Eastern/17:00 UK/18:00 CET   The Markaz Review in partnership with the Radical Books Collective presents a lively online discussion about Joumana Haddad's new novel The Book of Queens from Interlink Books, with the author joining in the second… Continue reading Joumana Haddad’s “The Book of Queens” with Radical Books & TMR

TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Handsome Jew” by Ali Al-Muqri

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The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This powerful novel tells the tragic saga of two lovers, Salem, a Jew, and Fatima, a Muslim, who fall in a forbidden, intense, and passionate love… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Handsome Jew” by Ali Al-Muqri

TMR Bookgroup Discusses Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home” with the author

When you live in a conservative society, you run the risk of censure. How far should a philosophy professor stick her neck out to make a point? Would you put it all on the line in the pursuit of truth or justice, or whatever informs your intent? An Unlasting Home, by award-winning short story writer Mai Al-Nakib,… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home” with the author

TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid

The Guardian calls Mohsin Hamid’s new novel “a hypnotic race fable,” in which “as white people suddenly awake in brown skin, they are forced to confront uncomfortable truths about power and identity.” “One morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.” So begins Mohsin Hamid’s inventive… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid

We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author

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THE JANUARY BOOKGROUP SELECTION IS is Out of Mesopotamia, by Salar Abdoh (no bookgroup meeting in December). The discussion takes place, with the author, on Sunday, January 29, 2023, 1 pm Eastern/19:00 CET. "Imagine getting into Iraq and Syria as an observer of the war on ISIS, and yet very soon after you’ve been close enough… Continue reading We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author