Novelist Preeta Samarasan believes that the greatest truths reside more often in fiction than in fact.
14 MARCH 2021 • By
Biographer Marian Janssen reveals the big, brash, blonde feminist writer and poet Carolyn Kizer, who fascinated and shocked...
14 MARCH 2021 • By
In which Egyptian-Syrian-French journalist and novelist Robert Solé considers the Arab awakenings across the region.
14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By
Was Syria's civil war in fact a climate war in the mode of Darfur in the Sudan—called by...
14 JANUARY 2021 • By
Landscape is a charged notion in the Middle East—even the geographical term Middle East is not neutral, but...
14 DECEMBER 2020 • By
One of Iran's most venerable journalists and editors gives us an insider's history of one of the world's...
14 DECEMBER 2020 • By
Though it ended on catastrophe, with the war in Gaza, the editors of The Markaz Review recall their...
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Science fiction and dystopias figure prominently in Arab literature going back more than 100 years, writes Elizabeth Rauh.
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