Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
April 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 powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein’s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to… Continue reading Hadiya Hassein: Waiting for the Past
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, 13 Eastern/18:00 CET). Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between… Continue reading Sophia Al-Maria’s memoir The Girl Who Fell to Earth
A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.
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.
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 together online to discuss their work and where we are today, nearly 20 years after the commencement of the Iraq War, an Anglo-American disaster that… Continue reading Iraq, 20 Years After the War, From the Viewpoint of Its Creatives
“Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality.” —Négar Djavadi
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 Eastern/19:00 CET. "Imagine getting into Iraq and Syria as an observer of the war on ISIS, and yet very soon after you’ve been close enough… Continue reading We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author
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 powerful novel tells the tragic saga of two lovers, Salem, a Jew, and Fatima, a Muslim, who fall in a forbidden, intense, and passionate love… Continue reading TMR Bookgroup Discusses “The Handsome Jew” by Ali Al-Muqri
Join the TMR Bookgroup when we discuss Ayelet Tsabari's short stories.
Register Here (Free Event) This online event takes place June 4, 2022 at 12 noon Eastern/17:00 UK/18:00 CET The Markaz Review in partnership with the Radical Books Collective presents a lively online discussion about Joumana Haddad's new novel The Book of Queens from Interlink Books, with the author joining in the second… Continue reading Joumana Haddad’s “The Book of Queens” with Radical Books & TMR