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29 November 2025 • 18:00 - 19:30

Gazette Café

An Evening of Poetry & Prose

Join us for an evening of poetry and prose at the Gazette Café

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Past events

A Stranger in Baghdad with Elizabeth Loudon

Novelist Elizabeth Louden joins TMR's Book Club moderated by Rana Asfour.

27 August 2023 • 13:00 - 14:00

Read EMISSARIES Short Stories, Meet Author Youssef Rakha, July 2, 1 pm EST

EMISSARIES is a new volume of original, irreverent short stories from Cairo-based author Youssef Rakha. Meet him and discuss the book on Sunday, July 2nd.

2 July 2023 • 13:00 - 14:00

TMR Bookgroup Discusses Enter Ghost, with novelist Isabella Hammad

RSVP here   The June 2023 BookGroup Selection is Enter Ghost, a novel by Isabella Hammad. She will be interviewed by editors Rana Asfour and Jordan Elgrably on Sunday, June […]

4 June 2023 • 19:00 - 19:00

WORK—a TMR Roundtable Conversation With 5 Writers, May 18th, 12 pm ET/18:00 CET

5 writers talk about working in media and film, talk about working while being an immigrant, working while Arab.

18 May 2023 • 18:00 - 19:00

Hadiya Hassein: Waiting for the Past

April 2023 BookGroup Selection is Waiting for the Past, a novel by Hadiya Hussein, translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine Hadiya Hussein’s poignant novel plunges readers into a haunting and […]

7 May 2023 • 12:00 - 13:00
Sophia Al-Maria's memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth.

Sophia Al-Maria’s memoir The Girl Who Fell to Earth

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

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
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