Translation

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
Arabic Was the Guest at This Year’s Avignon Festival

Arabic Was the Guest at This Year’s Avignon Festival

Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's...

AUGUST 15, 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
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 Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen

The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen

Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of...

MARCH 14, 2025 • By Jonas Elbousty
Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to...

JANUARY 17, 2025 • By Yasmeen Hanoosh
Poet Ahmad Almallah

Poet Ahmad Almallah

Poet and writer Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem and presently makes his home in Philadelphia.

NOVEMBER 9, 2023 • By Ahmad Almallah
Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight

Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight

Brahim El Guabli argues that Morocco's disaster survivors must be able to communicate in their mother tongue.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Andal—Three Poems Translated by Ravi Shankar

Andal—Three Poems Translated by Ravi Shankar

Devotional poems in Tamil by Andal, a poet as beloved in India as Rumi is around the world.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 • By Ravi Shankar
Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization

Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization

Brahim El-Guabli identifies how Amazigh activists have engaged with translation to revitalize their threatened language and culture.

AUGUST 14, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Joyce Mansour

Joyce Mansour

Syrian Jewish, Egyptian and French, Joyce Mansour was a profilic poet and Surrealist.

JULY 4, 2023 • By Joyce Mansour
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