Maps are narratives of the past, present, and future, powerful chronicles of presence and absence, ownership and theft,...
AUGUST 29, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.
AUGUST 8, 2025 • By Ahmed Naji
A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst...
MAY 30, 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see...
MAY 2, 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews polyglot Tony Molho's memoir about the Holocaust in Greece and his family history.
OCTOBER 18, 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Katie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.
MARCH 3, 2024 • By Katie Logan
In tone, "Rotten Evidence" is cynical, bitterly funny, and oftentimes tender without ever being sentimental, writes Lina Mounzer.
FEBRUARY 12, 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Thérèse Soukkar Chehade reviews Laila Halaby's memoir about coming to terms with the trauma of losing her first...
AUGUST 28, 2023 • By Thérèse Soukar Chehade
email books@themarkaz.org to join this event on Zoom March 2023 BookGroup Selection is The Girl Who Fell to Earth,...
MARCH 20, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.
NOVEMBER 15, 2022 • By Necati Sönmez
