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Two Ways to See Morocco from Across the Mediterranean

Two Ways to See Morocco from Across the Mediterranean

Nora Ounnas Leroy talks to three Moroccan artists participating in a Montpellier incubator project through the Festival Arabesques.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022 • By Nora Ounnas Leroy
My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

Brahim El Guabli explores his Amazigh roots while championing the struggle of all indigenous peoples.

JUNE 6, 2022 • By Brahim El Guabli
A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern

A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern

Register Here.   The Markaz Review presents a roundtable conversation on Middle Eastern cuisine among contributors to the...

MAY 4, 2022 • By
LA Sketches: Sneakers and the Man From Taroudant

LA Sketches: Sneakers and the Man From Taroudant

A young artisan from Taroudant, Morocco now calls Los Angeles home and brings a particular flare to shoe...

FEBRUARY 15, 2022 • By
Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on...

JANUARY 24, 2022 • By Nouha Homad
A Street in Marrakesh Revisited

A Street in Marrakesh Revisited

In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life...

NOVEMBER 8, 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
Victims of Discrimination Never Forget in The Forgotten Ones

Victims of Discrimination Never Forget in The Forgotten Ones

TMR reviews a film on discrimination in Israel and the original Jews of the Middle East and North...

NOVEMBER 1, 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

Brahim El Guabli   I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
“Tattoos,” an excerpt from Karima Ahdad’s Amazigh-Moroccan novel “Cactus Girls”

“Tattoos,” an excerpt from Karima Ahdad’s Amazigh-Moroccan novel “Cactus Girls”

In this excerpt from the Amazigh-Moroccan novel "Cactus Girls" by Karima Ahdad, a fierce small-town girl from the...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 • By Monique El-Faizy
Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Aomar Boum
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