migration

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...

MAY 9, 2025 • By Elena Pare
The Hybrid—The Case of Michael Vatikiotis

The Hybrid—The Case of Michael Vatikiotis

Rana Haddad interviews hybrid hopscotching writer Michael Vatikiotis on his colorful life and work spanning continents.

OCTOBER 18, 2024 • By Rana Haddad
Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences,...

APRIL 1, 2024 • By TMR
The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.

MARCH 7, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
To Receive Asylum, You First Have to be Believed, and Accepted

To Receive Asylum, You First Have to be Believed, and Accepted

Mischa Geracoulis reviews the new book from Dina Nayeri on refugees and asylum seekers who must be believed...

MARCH 5, 2023 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc—a “Permanent Immigrant”

Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc—a “Permanent Immigrant”

Immigrant poet Mihaela Muscaliuc has wandered half her life, far afield from her native Romania, and is always...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Mihaela Moscaliuc
Changing Colors — Reflections on The Last White Man

Changing Colors — Reflections on The Last White Man

Jordan Elgrably reads a book about white fear and racism and finds that colorism isn't our only problem.

NOVEMBER 15, 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Two Syrian Brothers Find Themselves in “We Are From There”

Two Syrian Brothers Find Themselves in “We Are From There”

Angélique Crux reviews the award-winning documentary from Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Tanios.

AUGUST 22, 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
Tunisia’s Imed Alibi Crosses Borders in new “Frigya” Electronica Album

Tunisia’s Imed Alibi Crosses Borders in new “Frigya” Electronica Album

Melissa Chemam in her latest music column interviews Tunisian electro-world creator Imed Alibi.

JULY 18, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Abundant Middle Eastern Talent at the ’22 Avignon Theatre Fest

Abundant Middle Eastern Talent at the ’22 Avignon Theatre Fest

Nada Ghosn revels in the artistry of Palestinian, Iranian, Lebanese, Afghan and other playwrights and performers in Avignon...

JULY 18, 2022 • By I. Rida Mahmood
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