In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West...
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To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
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Kurdish poetry abounds but rarely appears in English. Jordan Elgrably reviews a bilingual English-Kurdish edition of Selim Temo's...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By
Cory Oldweiler reviews the debut story collection by Farhad Pirbal, one of Kurdistan's iconic writers, now out from...
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Join us for this roundtable discussion celebrating The Markaz Review's summer double fiction issue with featured writers MK...
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Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.
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In the 1970s Israel's Black Panthers rocked the establishment and brought the rampant discrimation against Arab Jews to...
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Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
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The Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and...
12 JULY 2024 • By
The meta-narrative in Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy foresees the modern disaster of never-ending colonialism and a planet destroyed...
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