We're not quite at "Fahrenheit 451" where books in pyres are burned in public, but our freedom to...
JULY 4, 2025 • By Yasmina Jraissati
In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.
APRIL 18, 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
MARCH 21, 2025 • By Deborah Williams
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
With the war in Gaza and accusations of genocide in the International Court of Justice, tensions have risen...
APRIL 12, 2024 • By Maura Finkelstein
Samia Errazzouki recounts personal experience as a Moroccan American journalist working in Morocco.
DECEMBER 15, 2022 • By Samia Errazzouki
Author and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi must be released by Iranian authorities immediately.
DECEMBER 15, 2022 • By
The Markaz Review joins 15 Nobel Prize for Literature laureates and millions around the world in calling for...
NOVEMBER 7, 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Storyteller Sahand Sahebdivani remembers the late Turkish firebrand Aziz Nesin who wanted to translate Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic...
AUGUST 22, 2022 • By Steve Sabella
