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Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...

JUNE 6, 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams...

MARCH 7, 2025 • By Alia Yunis
The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

A Pultizer winner for his play "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar is the current President of PEN America and author...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari

Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari

An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Inaam Kachachi
Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project

Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project

Viola Shafik profiles Berlin-based Palestinian photographer Mohamed Badarne.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Settling: Towards an Arabic translation of the English word “Home”

Settling: Towards an Arabic translation of the English word “Home”

Hisham Bustani meditates on the asylum seeker's struggle to find a place to call home.

JANUARY 15, 2022 • By Hisham Bustani
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