Lebanon

Ali Cherri’s show at Marseille’s [mac] Is Watching You

Ali Cherri’s show at Marseille’s [mac] Is Watching You

Ali Cherri’s new show in Marseille, on view through the 4th of January 2026, deconstructs the museum from...

AUGUST 15, 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Architectural Biennale Confronts Brutality of Climate Change

Architectural Biennale Confronts Brutality of Climate Change

As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.

AUGUST 1, 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on...

JUNE 13, 2025 • By Jim Quilty
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
An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the...

MAY 30, 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems

Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems

A major name in Arabic poetry, Jawdat Fakhreddine establishes a revolutionary dialogue between international, modernist values and the...

MAY 20, 2025 • By Jawdat Fakhreddine
Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

The Sursock Museum in Beirut presents "Ode to the South," a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Karina El Helou
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // …...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Between Belief and Doubt: Ramzi Mallat’s Suspended Disbelief

Between Belief and Doubt: Ramzi Mallat’s Suspended Disbelief

"Suspended Disbelief" interrogates the tension between belief and doubt in the folklore and collective psyche of the Mediterranean...

APRIL 11, 2025 • By Marta Mendes
The Editor’s Letter Following the US 2024 Presidential Election

The Editor’s Letter Following the US 2024 Presidential Election

The Markaz Review responds to the results of the 2024 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump prevailed...

NOVEMBER 8, 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
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