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The Vanishing of the Public Intellectual – Moustafa Bayoumi<\/p>\n
Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life – Layla AlAmmar<\/p>\n
Editors’ Picks: Public Intellectuals – TMR<\/p>\n
The Contemporary Literary Scene in Iran – Salar Abdoh<\/p>\n
In and Between Languages: Writing on the Fault Line – Nektaria Anastasiadou<\/p>\n
“Silence is Golden”\u2014a short story by Farah Ahamed<\/p>\n
Reza Aslan’s An American Martyr in Persia<\/em> Argues for US-Iranian Friendship – Dalia Sofer<\/p>\n It Is Time to Reclaim Public Intellectuals – Deborah Lindsey Williams<\/p>\n “Supplication”\u2014a short story by Hisham Bustani<\/p>\n The Task of the Public Intellectual? Translation – Deborah Kapchan<\/p>\n Why Fawwaz Traboulsi? – The Markaz Review – Amal Ghandour<\/p>\n Fairouz: The Peacemaker and Champion of Palestine – Dima Issa<\/p>\n Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Political Prisoner and Public Intellectual – Yasmine El Rashidi<\/p>\n “Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”\u2014fiction from Dina Abou Salem<\/p>\n Adel Abidin, Featured Artist, October 2023 – The Markaz Review – TMR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMR Issue 35 – 15 articles – 127 pages<\/p>\n In the 20th<\/sup> century, public intellectuals were the international stars of literature and ideas \u2014 they were Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and too many others to name in the \u201cwest.\u201d In the Arab world and Africa there was a time when we looked to writers like Mouloud Feraoun<\/a>, Kateb\u00a0 Yacine and Assia Djebar in Algeria and\u00a0Ghassan Kanafani<\/a>\u00a0out of Palestine, as well as a parade of intelligensia from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Morocco and beyond. But who do we turn to, today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30599,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3209],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29227","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tmr-issues","7":"entry","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"downloadable","12":"virtual","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n