The Markaz Review welcomes 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow, Translator and Writer Lara Vergnaud.
AUGUST 29, 2025 • By TMRWhen disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...
FEBRUARY 4, 2024 • By Maryam HaidariYesmine Abida recalls the end of her family's time in Tripoli and the beginning of a life without...
DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Yesmine AbidaTugrul Mende reviews a new book by Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik that explores the journey of the Maghreb Generation that...
OCTOBER 30, 2023 • By Tugrul MendeBilingual poems, in Arabic and English, from Iman Mersal (Egypt), Ines Abassi (Tunisia) and Ashjan Hendi (Saudi Arabia).
OCTOBER 11, 2023 • By Sarah CoolidgeThe largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 • By TMRSarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds...
JULY 17, 2023 • By Jordan ElgrablyRose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor...
JUNE 4, 2023 • By Rose IssaIn her latest music column for TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the genre-defying Tunisian electro artist Ghoula.
MARCH 20, 2023 • By Melissa ChemamCairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising...
MARCH 5, 2023 • By Leila Aboulela