Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Handsome Jew” by Ali Al-Muqri
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… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses Mai Al-Nakib’s “An Unlasting Home” with the author
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… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid
Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's best-known novelists was locked up in prison, the key thrown away.
THE 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… Continue reading We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author
“Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality.” —Négar Djavadi
RSVP 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… Continue reading Iraq, 20 Years After the War, From the Viewpoint of Its Creatives
Amal Ghandour, author of This Arab Life, interviews Palestinian attorney and author Raja Shehadeh about his latest book, a memoir of his lawyer-judge father.
A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.
email 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,… Continue reading Sophia Al-Maria’s memoir The Girl Who Fell to Earth