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We will meet to discuss "The Hidden Light of Objects" by Mai Al-Nakib online on Sunday, April 26 at ...
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We will meet to discuss The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq on Sunday, May ...
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We will meet to discuss Gates of Paradise by Taleb Alrefai, translated by Kay Heikkinen on Sunday, June 28 ...
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email books@themarkaz.org to join this event on Zoom March 2023 BookGroup Selection is The Girl Who Fell to Earth, a memoir by Sophia Al-Maria (discussing the book on Sunday, March 26, […]
26 March 2023 • 18:00 - 19:00
A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.
23 March 2023 • 19:00 - 20:00
Amal Ghandour, author of This Arab Life, interviews Palestinian attorney and author Raja Shehadeh about his latest book, a memoir of his lawyer-judge father.
16 March 2023 • 18:00 - 19:00
RSVP now Iraq, 20 years after the War, Thursday, 2 March, 18:00 CET (12 noon ET/17:00 UK/19:00 Beirut/21:00 Abu Dhabi). Several participants in this month’s issue on IRAQ will gather […]
2 March 2023 • 18:00 - 19:00
“Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality.” —Négar Djavadi
26 February 2023 • 12:00 - 13:00
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 […]
29 January 2023 • 13:00 - 14:00Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.
1 January 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00
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 […]
30 October 2022 • 13:00 - 14:00