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SUMMARY:TMR Conversations: Rula Jebreal on the Present Moment
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin us on March 7th at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET/ 6pm UK for an interview organized by TMR’s Editor-in-Chief Jordan Elgrably with Rula Jebreal about what it means to be a Palestinian writer in an era when Palestinian writers and journalists are considered by Israel to be enemies of the state. Jebreal will address the reality in Gaza and the West Bank\, and where we go from here. \nThis online event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speaker \nRula Jebreal is an award-winning journalist\, author\, and foreign policy analyst renowned for her groundbreaking work in Europe\, the United States\, and across the Middle East. Jebreal’s diverse body of work reflects her life-long engagement with topics that have directly impacted her life\, both personally and professionally\, from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict\, the war on terror\, and global far right movements rising throughout Europe and the United States. Jebreal has also grappled with the the war on truth\, propaganda and conspiracy theories\, and in fact for the past five years has been teaching a course at the University of Miami\, entitled “Persuasion\, Propaganda\, and Genocide.” She is an international bestselling author\, whose novel Miral\, among other works\, has been translated into more than 14 languages. Jebreal is a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami\, and serves on the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council\, a body relaunched in 2018 by French President Emmanuel Macron\, as well as the Advisory Board of The U.S./Middle East Project. She is fluent in Italian\, English\, Hebrew\, and Arabic. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nRSVP here
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SUMMARY:TMR 39 • BURN IT ALL DOWN Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nThe Markaz Review presents a conversation around TMR 39’s theme\, BURN IT ALL DOWN\, in which senior editor Lina Mounzer talks to three of the issue’s contributors on their essays.  \nIn her editorial\, “Why Burn It All Down?”\, Mounzer quoted the poetry of John Donne and suggested that the Gaza genocide represents “a collective diminishment” of us all — westerners and easterners alike\, while in her essay “The Time of Monsters\,” Layla AlAmmar took inspiration from several Arab poets\, including Khalil Gibran\, as well as writers Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci\, and argued that Hamas was trying “to stop the Nakba.” In “Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner\,” Abdelrahman ElGendy struggles with wishing to express himself in Arabic while admitting that English holds more currency; he argues that “English does not give me a seat at the table [but] offers me the chance to point at the table.” ElGendy asks: “How do you hold your grief in a language that’s been its main perpetrator?” And Michelle Eid in her essay “Israel’s Environmental and Economic War on Lebanon” suggests that Israel isn’t only at war with the Palestinians\, but perhaps the entire region. What needs to be dismantled or destroyed before a new world can be ushered in? This conversation gives the microphone to a younger Arab generation who\, though perfectly fluent in English\, takes issue with western hegemonic discourse. \nThis roundtable discussion will take place online on March 21st at 2pm EST/ 7pm CET/ 6pm UK. This event is open and free to the public. Donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review.  \nRSVP here \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nLINA MOUNZER is a Lebanese writer and translator. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and her work has appeared in the Paris Review\, Freeman’s\, Washington Post\, and The Baffler\, as well as in the anthologies Tales of Two Planets (Penguin 2020)\, and Best American Essays 2022 (Harper Collins 2022). She is a senior editor at The Markaz Review. \nRead her editorial in our March issue\, TMR 39 • BURN IT ALL DOWN: Why “Burn it All Down”? \nLAYLA ALAMMAR is a writer and academic from Kuwait. She earned a PhD in Arab women’s fiction and literary trauma theory\, and she has an MSc in Creative Writing. Her debut novel\, The Pact We Made (2019)\, was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel\, Silence is a Sense (2021)\, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She has written for The Guardian\, LitHub\, the Times Literary Supplement\, ArabLit Quarterly\, The New Arab\, GQ Middle East\, and NewLines Magazine.  \nRead her essay in our March issue\, TMR 39 • BURN IT ALL DOWN: The Time of Monsters \nABDELRAHMAN ELGENDY is a Dietrich fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Nonfiction Writing MFA\, and a Heinz fellow at Pitt’s Global Studies Center. His work has received awards or fellowships from Logan Nonfiction Program\, Tin House Workshop\, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was a finalist for the 2021 and 2023 Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism. \nRead his centerpiece essay in our March issue\, TMR 39 • BURN IT ALL DOWN: Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner  \nMICHELLE EID is a researcher\, consultant\, and editor. Her areas of interest are socio-economic rights and development\, focusing on agriculture and food sovereignty in the Levant. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Al Rawiya\, a magazine focused on the Levant region.  \nRead her essay in our March issue\, TMR 39 • BURN IT ALL DOWN: Israel’s Environmental and Economic Warfare on Lebanon \n  \nRSVP here
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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses "The Applicant" with author Nazli Koca
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin TMR’s Book Club on March 31st at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET to discuss Nazli Koca’s “The Applicant” and meet the author. \nAbout the book:\nIt’s 2017 and Leyla\, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis\, losing her student visa\, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her failure. \nIncreasingly distant from what used to be at arm’s reach—writerly ambitions\, tight knit friendships\, a place to call home—Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin’s nightlife\, with little success. Right as the clock winds down on the hold on her visa\, Leyla meets a conservative Swedish tourist and—against her political convictions and better judgment—begins to fall in love\, or something like it. Will she accept an IKEA life with the Volvo salesman and relinquish her creative dreams\, or return to Turkey to her mother and sister\, codependent and enmeshed\, her father’s ghost still haunting their lives? \nWhile she waits for the German court’s verdict on her future\, in the pages of her diary\, Leyla begins to parse her unresolved past and untenable present. An indelible character at once precocious and imperiled\, Leyla gives voice to the working-class and immigrant struggle to find safety\, self-expression\, and happiness. “The Applicant” is an extraordinary dissection of a liminal life between borders and identities\, an original and darkly funny debut. \nAbout the author: \nNazlı Koca is a writer and poet from Turkey who now lives in the US. Her writing has appeared in the Threepenny Review\, Bookforum\, and Second Factory\, among other outlets. “The Applicant” is her first novel. \nRSVP here
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