Events

BOOK CLUB (ENG & FR), MONTHLY ONLINE ROUNDTABLES AND MORE

30 August 2026 • 19:00 - 20:00

Online

TMR Book Club Discusses “The Slightest Green” by Sahar Mustafah

We will meet to discuss "The Slightest Green" by Sahar Mustafa on Sunday, August 30 at 1 pm EDT/19:00 CET. 

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27 September 2026 • 19:00 - 20:00

Online

TMR Book Club Discusses “Floodlines” by Saleem Haddad

We will meet to discuss Floodlines by Saleem Haddad, online on Sunday, September 27 at 1 pm EDT/19:00 CET. The ...

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25 October 2026 • 19:00 - 20:00

Online

TMR Book Club Discusses “The Night is Not for You” by Eman Quotah

We will meet to discuss "The Night is Not for You" by Eman Quotah online on Sunday, October 25 at ...

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29 November 2026 • 19:00 - 20:00

Online

TMR Book Club Discusses “Birds in the Rain” by Rana Hanna

We will meet to discuss "Birds in the Rain" by Rana Hanna online on Sunday, November 29 at 1 ...

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Past events

The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.

23 March 2023 • 19:00 - 20:00

TMR Conversations: Raja Shehadeh & Amal Ghandour

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

Iraq, 20 Years After the War, From the Viewpoint of Its Creatives

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

Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, Sunday, Feb. 26, 12 noon Eastern

“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
Out of Mesopotamia

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

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 - 14:00

Nov 2022 BookGroup Selection is “I Will Never See the World Again” by Ahmet Altan

Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.

1 January 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00

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 […]

30 October 2022 • 13:00 - 14:00

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 […]

1 January 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00
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