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Kashmir

2 May, 2025 • Nafeesa Syeed

A Kashmiri in Cashmere

After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement, and belonging.

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2 May, 2025 • TMR

For Our 50th Issue, Writers Reflect on Going Home

In the 50th issue of The Markaz Review, diverse writers explore the return home in creative nonfiction, fiction excerpts and prose poems.

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15 December, 2021 • Tariq Mehmood

My Lebanese Landlord, Lebanese Bankdits, and German Racism

Racism props up its ugly head from every quarter, but Tariq Mehmood refuses to be deterred.

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15 September, 2021 • Agha Shahid Ali

Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali Tonight    Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar                          —Laurence Hope Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight? Whom else from… Continue reading Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

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14 May, 2021 • Ifat Gazia

Panopticon of Kashmir

Ifat Gazia on her native Kashmir wonders why her family was uprooted, displaced and forced to live like homeless people in their own land.

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