TMR Bookgroup Discusses Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home” with the author
When you live in a conservative society, you run the risk of censure. How far should a philosophy professor stick her neck out to make a point? Would you put it all […]
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TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid
The Guardian calls Mohsin Hamid’s new novel “a hypnotic race fable,” in which “as white people suddenly awake in brown skin, they are forced to confront uncomfortable truths about power […]
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Nov 2022 BookGroup Selection is “I Will Never See the World Again” by Ahmet Altan
Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.
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We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author
OnlineTHE JANUARY BOOKGROUP SELECTION IS is Out of Mesopotamia, by Salar Abdoh (no bookgroup meeting in December). The discussion takes place, with the author, on Sunday, January 29, 2023, 1 pm […]
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Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, Sunday, Feb. 26, 12 noon Eastern
Online“Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality.” —Négar Djavadi
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Iraq, 20 Years After the War, From the Viewpoint of Its Creatives
FeaturedOnlineRSVP now Iraq, 20 years after the War, Thursday, 2 March, 18:00 CET (12 noon ET/17:00 UK/19:00 Beirut/21:00 Abu Dhabi). Several participants in this month's issue on IRAQ will gather […]
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TMR Conversations: Raja Shehadeh & Amal Ghandour
FeaturedOnlineAmal Ghandour, author of This Arab Life, interviews Palestinian attorney and author Raja Shehadeh about his latest book, a memoir of his lawyer-judge father.
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The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable
OnlineA TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.
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Sophia Al-Maria’s memoir The Girl Who Fell to Earth
Onlineemail books@themarkaz.org to join this event on Zoom March 2023 BookGroup Selection is The Girl Who Fell to Earth, a memoir by Sophia Al-Maria (discussing the book on Sunday, March 26, […]
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Hadiya Hassein: Waiting for the Past
OnlineApril 2023 BookGroup Selection is Waiting for the Past, a novel by Hadiya Hussein, translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine Hadiya Hussein’s poignant novel plunges readers into a haunting and […]
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WORK—a TMR Roundtable Conversation With 5 Writers, May 18th, 12 pm ET/18:00 CET
Online5 writers talk about working in media and film, talk about working while being an immigrant, working while Arab.
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TMR Bookgroup Discusses Enter Ghost, with novelist Isabella Hammad
OnlineRSVP here The June 2023 BookGroup Selection is Enter Ghost, a novel by Isabella Hammad. She will be interviewed by editors Rana Asfour and Jordan Elgrably on Sunday, June […]