What happens when public universities begin shutting down entire area studies departments, and learning foreign languages becomes a...
AUGUST 28, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Jordan Elgrably interviews the Algerian-French iconoclast about her first album after Covid and about why she's devoted her...
MAY 1, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Rana Asfour interviews fellow Jordanian writer Hisham Bustani about his stories, writing in Arabic and ideas on history...
MARCH 5, 2023 • By Rana Asfour
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 • By TMR
Music writer Melissa Chemam interviews Rasha Nahas on her new Arabic-language album, "Amrat."
JANUARY 23, 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
Jenine Abboushi in her latest travel essay, returns to Morocco for a long-overdue visit.
JANUARY 9, 2023 • By Jenine Abboushi
Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw present their book of Ghabib ghazals, translated from the Urdu.
OCTOBER 16, 2022 • By Tony Barnstone
Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with...
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 • By Ahmed Farouk
Viola Shafik profiles Jihan El-Tahiri and Myriam El Haïk, two Arab artists in the 2022 Berlin Biennale.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 • By Karim Kattan
The Markaz Review presents Libya's Mohammed al-Naas in these exclusive excerpts translated by Rana Asfour.
JULY 18, 2022 • By Mohammed Alnaas
