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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses "The Jinn Daughter" with author Rania Hanna
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin us on Sunday\, October 27th at 1pm EST to discuss “The Jinn Daughter” with author Rania Hanna. \nRooted in Middle Eastern mythology\, Rania Hanna deftly weaves subtle\, yet breathtaking\, magic through this vivid and compelling story that has at its heart the universal human desire to\, somehow\, outmaneuver death. \nPublished by AUC Press (Hoopoe)\, 274 pages. \n_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the author: \nRania Hanna is a Syrian–American writer and researcher. She is a neuroscience doctoral student at George Mason University. “The Jinn Daughter” is her debut novel. \nRSVP here
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion - A Year of War: A Conversation on Our Shared Future
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nThe Markaz Review invites you to attend A YEAR OF WAR\, A CONVERSATION ON OUR SHARED FUTURE: a roundtable with Samina Najmi\, Ziad Suidan and Lina Mounzer\, with special guest Mona Seif. \nFollowing the publication of our October 2024 issue\, FROM HERE\, ONE YEAR ON\,  we invite you to participate in a discussion about the year of war that began on October 7\, 2023\, which has since spread into Lebanon and Yemen\, with further hostilities expected between Israel and Iran. Israel has refused ceasefire proposals from the UN and the White House\, and continues to bomb Gaza\, the West Bank\, Lebanon\, Yemen and Syria. At the same time\, many of the region’s inhabitants are living under despotic regimes\, where freedom of expression is a daily danger\, where dissidents are thrown into prison\, women’s rights are curtailed\, and religious minorities experience oppression or exile. \nSamina Najmi\, Ziad Suidan and Lina Mounzer will talk about their essays in FROM HERE\, ONE YEAR ON\, while Mona Seif will discuss discuss the continued imprisonment in Cairo of her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah despite finishing his five year sentence (Alaa Abd El-Fattah is sharing the 2024 English PEN Pinter Prize with Arundati Roy\, it was just announced.)  \nIn this time of heightened tensions\, genocide and war\, with the entire Middle East region on edge\, Nobel Prize Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is calling for peace from her Evin Prison cell in Tehran\, while millions march for peace in Palestine and Lebanon. Join us on October 24 for what is certain to be a passionate conversation\, moderated by Lina Mounzer\, senior editor at The Markaz Review. \n___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nMona Seif grew up in a family of Egyptian activists. Her father Ahmed Seif was a human rights attorney and her brother Alaa Abd el-Fattah is a human rights activist and author. Mona is known for her participation in dissident movements during and after the 2011 Egyptian revolution\, for her creative use of social media in campaigns\, and for her work to end military trials for civilian protesters. She is a biology graduate student in the UK\, investigating the BRCA1 breast cancer gene. \n  \nSamina Najmi teaches multiethnic US literatures at California State University\, Fresno. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in World Literature Today\, The Rumpus\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. Her collection of essays\, Sing Me a Circle\, won the 2024 Aurora Polaris Award in creative nonfiction and will be published by Trio House Press in 2025. Samina grew up in Pakistan and England and raised her now-adult children in Fresno. Read her essay in our October issue: The Spark of Your Story\, Ode to Aaron Bushnell. \n  \nZiad Suidan is a lecturer at Haigazian University. He teaches English Literature\, Cultural Studies and Communication Arts. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature in 2013 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation focused on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and its poetics of exile. \nRead his centerpiece essay in our latest issue: Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon. \n  \nRSVP here \n 
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SUMMARY:GATEKEEPERS: Arab Writers\, Editors & Publishers Confront Mainstream Opposition
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \nThe Markaz Review presents GATEKEEPERS: Arab Writers\, Editors & Publishers Confront Mainstream Opposition\, a roundtable with Palestinian authors/publishers/editors Michel Moushabeck and Hannah Moushabeck\, and author/publisher/editor Ammiel Alcalay. Free speech and the freedom to publish inconvenient truths during the war on Gaza; what hoops and misconceptions do writers and publishers from the region face; and who gatekeepers in popular Western publishing are some of the topics for the panel\, which will be moderated by TMR editors Jordan Elgrably & Malu Halasa. \n___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \n \nMichel Moushabeck is the founder of the independently owned Interlink Books (1987)\, which has an active list of over 1\,000 titles and has published more Arab authors than any other US publisher. He is also a writer\, editor\, and musician of Palestinian Arab descent. In April this year he received the Arab American of the Year Award from ACCESS in Detroit. Moushabeck lectures frequently on Arabic music and literature in translation. He plays music almost daily; is an avid hiker and mountain climber; and is a rather obsessive collector of jazz and world music\, world percussion instruments\, books\, old maps\, and contemporary art. \n  \nHannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books\, The Quarto Group\, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing\, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States\, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations. \n  \nAmmiel Alcalay is a poet\, novelist\, translator\, essayist\, critic\, and scholar. Among his more than 20 books are After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture; Memories of Our Future; a little history; and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters\, as well as CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books. His co-translation of Palestinian poet Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece\, is due out in early 2025. He received an American Book Award in for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative\, and is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. \nRead his essay in our latest issue: My Life Among the Gatekeepers \n\nModerators \n \nJordan Elgrably is an American\, French and Moroccan writer and translator whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many anthologies and reviews\, including Apulée\, Salmagundi\, and the Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review\, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). He is the editor of Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights\, 2024)\, and co-editor with Malu Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories\, 2024)\, Based in Montpellier\, France and California\, he tweets @JordanElgrably. \nRead the editorial in our latest issue: Why GATEKEEPERS? \nMalu Halasa\, literary editor at The Markaz Review\, is a London-based writer and editor. Her latest book as editor is Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran (Saqi 2023). Her six previous co-edited anthologies include Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline\, with coedited with Zaher Omareen & Nawara Mahfoud; The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design\, with Rana Salam; and the short series: Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images\, with Rosanne Khalaf\, and Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations\, with Maziar Bahari. She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library; a founding editor of Tank Magazine and Editor at Large for Portal 9. As a freelance journalist in London\, she has covered wide-ranging subjects\, from water as occupation in Israel/Palestine to Syrian comics during the present-day conflict. Her books\, exhibitions and lectures chart a changing Middle East. Malu Halasa’s debut novel\, Mother of All Pigs was reviewed by the New York Times as “a microcosmic portrait of … a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.” She tweets at @halasamalu. \nRead her essay in our latest issue: Featured Artists—”Barred From Home” \n___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nRSVP
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