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Media Library

The Media Library features video work from The Markaz Review, your place for cultural news and conversations with artists, writers, filmmakers, and other voices from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas, the SWANA region.

Podcasts

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TMR Recommends:

Check out the BULAQ podcast on books and writing. Check out the VINTAGE ARAB podcast produced in French out of Paris: Podcasts sur le patrimoine musical arabe et les genres musicaux arabes.

Videos

7 March 2025

Ramy Essam Part1 @ Levantine Cultural Center Los Angeles

Love LA's cultural music, dance, film, arts? Discover hidden gems & unheard voices from our diverse communities and free ticket giveaways with our weekly newsletter

Bey-zubaan; without a tongue

Through collective writing, this hybrid work offers counter-narratives to dismantle the disaster narrative mapped onto Afghan lives.Sheeshaka, the Farsi word for “witches,” is a collective of seven Afghan American women working across lyric essay, fiction, poetry, and visual art. Their work emerges from varied professional, geographical, and generational contexts, yet is bound by shared histories of migration, linguistic fracture, and survival. The pieces below feature Farsi and Pashto.

7 March 2025

Ramy Essam Part1 @ Levantine Cultural Center Los Angeles

Love LA's cultural music, dance, film, arts? Discover hidden gems & unheard voices from our diverse communities and free ticket giveaways with our weekly newsletter

7 March 2025

Ramy Essam Part1 @ Levantine Cultural Center Los Angeles

Love LA's cultural music, dance, film, arts? Discover hidden gems & unheard voices from our diverse communities and free ticket giveaways with our weekly newsletter

7 March 2025
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