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 […]
May 07, 2023 • 12:00 - 13:00
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, […]
March 26, 2023 • 18:00 - 19:00
A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.
March 23, 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.
March 16, 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 […]
March 02, 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
February 26, 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 […]
January 29, 2023 • 13:00 - 14:00Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.
January 01, 1970 • 00:00 - 00:00
