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

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)

Reclaiming Palestinian Narratives in A Loveless World, with Susan Abulhawa

Register for Free Here   "Reclaiming Narratives in A Loveless World" chaired by Susan Abulhawa - Visualizing Palestine, Makan & Al Shabaka Joint Campaign This talk will take place on Wednesday 8th June 2022 at 5.00pm BST (12.00pm EST / 7.00pm Palestine time). The talk will last 1 hour and 15 minutes.  As part of the Threads of the… Continue reading Reclaiming Palestinian Narratives in A Loveless World, with Susan Abulhawa

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