Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences,...
APRIL 1, 2024 • By TMR
Nazli Tarzi reviews a book that challenges the uncritical view of eyeliner as a mere “exercise in vanity”...
FEBRUARY 19, 2024 • By Nazli Tarzi
In the aftermath of a long war, a man in Iran searches for meaning, hopes for love, and...
FEBRUARY 4, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...
FEBRUARY 4, 2024 • By Maryam Haidari
Four editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.
JANUARY 22, 2024 • By TMR
Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.
JANUARY 15, 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
Bavand Karim reviews the film "Holy Spider" by Ali Abbassi which coldly deconstructs the brutal nature of Iran’s...
DECEMBER 11, 2023 • By Bavand Karim
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Maryam Haidari
Matt Broomfield reviews the first anthology of Kurdish science fiction, one that envisions new possibilities for Kurdish self-determination.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023 • By Matthew Broomfield
L'écrivaine aghane-iranienne Aliyeh Ataei présente "La frontière des oubliés" de chez Gallimard au Grain des Mots.
NOVEMBER 24, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
