A review of a book that offers a portrait of a royal dynasty whose decline has significantly shaped...
JANUARY 10, 2025 • By Azadeh Moaveni
The Markaz Review responds to the results of the 2024 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump prevailed...
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri
Karim Goury reviews "Tatami," a sports combat film depicting the conflict between suppressive male law and individual female...
OCTOBER 11, 2024 • By Karim Goury
In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the...
OCTOBER 4, 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
JULY 15, 2024 • By Erfan Mojib
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Somaia Ramish's poems, originally in Persian, decry violence against women, underage or forced marriage, poverty and the impact...
JUNE 12, 2024 • By Somaia Ramish
An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer...
JUNE 7, 2024 • By Mehrnaz Daneshvar
