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Nasrin Abu Baker: The Markaz Review Featured Artist, June 2023

TMR / 4 June, 2023

Nasrin Abu Baker, the featured artist for June 2023, divides her time between Jerusalem and Leipzig, and exhibits widely.

Armenian Iranian immigrant poet Arthur Kayzakian presents his debut poetry collection with a video and excerpts.

Writer, editor and literary translator Zara Houshmand presents her new book of Rumi translations, Moon and Sun.

Safae Daoudi / 4 June, 2023

Safae Daoudi takes in the scope of Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson’s Curious Desert exhibition in Doha.

Rose Issa / 4 June, 2023

Rose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor the history and memories of the dead.

Yasmine Motawy interviews the critically-acclaimed Sudanese novelist and short story writer, Leila Aboulela.

Rana Asfour / 29 May, 2023

TMR’s managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world’s largest book events looking for literary mana.

Former ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr. argues that we have entered a new era in which players are shifting on the geopolitical chess table.

Hamilton Cain / 29 May, 2023

Hamilton Cain reviews a police procedural that connects Norfolk, Virginia with the late Iraq War and the streets of Mosul.

Melissa Chemam interviews the French-Algerian novelist Faïza Guène on the publication of her novel “Discretion” in English translation.

Rana Asfour / 22 May, 2023

Rana Asfour talks to Syrian-born and raised qanunist Maya Youssef, who now lives and teaches in the UK.

Laëtitia Soula toured the expansive photo exhibit Portraits of France, which celebrates the lives of 318 immigrants who paid it forward.