Academic and novelist Layla AlAmmar interrogates her life's creative and scholarly achievements against the teachings of Edward Said.
OCTOBER 9, 2023 • By Layla AlAmmar
Public intellectuals no longer exist, argues Moustafa Bayoumi; they have been usurped by "influencers."
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Moustafa Bayoumi
The editors of The Markaz Review made the difficult choice of selecting just two of their go-to public...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By TMR
Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
Nektaria Anastasiadou writes about her decision to pen her works using the historically fractured language of the Istanbul...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
In Farah Ahamed's latest satire, one man's misunderstood greatness drives him to take preposterous action.
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Farah Ahamed
Dalia Sofer reviews Reza Aslan's latest book on American Howard Baskerville, "martyred" alongside revolutionary students in Iran in...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Dalia Sofer
Deborah Lindsey Williams Writing in the early part of the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville observed...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Deborah Williams
In Hisham Bustani’s new short story, one man’s religious nightmare brings him face to face with an unlikely...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Hisham Bustani
Deborah Kapchan calls for public intellectuals who can speak in many registers amidst the rise of attacks on...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Deborah Kapchan
