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The Markaz Review Welcomes New Fellow, Lara Vergnaud

The Markaz Review Welcomes New Fellow, Lara Vergnaud

The Markaz Review welcomes 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow, Translator and Writer Lara Vergnaud.

AUGUST 29, 2025 • By TMR
Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat

In his latest solo exhibition, Mous Lamrabat delves deep into the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity and...

MARCH 7, 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Mounir Fatmi—Where Art Meets Technology

Mounir Fatmi—Where Art Meets Technology

Sophie Kazan Makhlouf interviews international Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi on his studio practice, why he makes art, and...

DECEMBER 28, 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

The Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and...

JULY 12, 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
Why FORGETTING?

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Brittany Landorf reviews the first major film of director Asmae El Moudir, Morocco’s entry for the 2024 Academy...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Brittany Landorf
Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Paris provided the grit and opportunity for Nass el Ghiwane to hone a new sound that would rock...

APRIL 1, 2024 • By Benjamin Jones
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

With genocidal violence raging in Gaza and muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices throughout France, Ariella Azoulay's word is now...

APRIL 1, 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes
Reconciling Ouarzazate with Solar Energy in Our Desert Town

Reconciling Ouarzazate with Solar Energy in Our Desert Town

As a solar power plant overtakes a Moroccan desert town, reconfiguring its visual and territorial makeup, there are...

JANUARY 15, 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
Experimental Saharanism: Exploiting Desert Environments

Experimental Saharanism: Exploiting Desert Environments

Brahim El Guabli urges us to studying deserts to push our thinking beyond ordinary notions of space and...

NOVEMBER 5, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
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