Remembering Elias Khoury, 1948-2024
A few words from the editors on the passing of Elias Khoury, on September 15, 2024.
Arab literature
My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa
A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story collection to her hometown.
Remembering Khaled Khalifa on the 40th Day
For the 40th day from his death, Youssef Rakha considers fellow writer Khaled Khalifa in the context of both Arabic and world literary canons.
What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love
Eman Quotah reviews a new anthology of love poems by Arab poets writing in English in the diaspora and in country.
Freedom and Dislocation in Jamal Mahjoub’s Novel, The Fugitives
David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and noir novels.
Cruising the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.
A Conversation with Tunisian novelist Yamen Manaï
Our correspondent in Tunis, Sarah Ben Hamadi, interviews Yamen Menaï, one of Tunisia's best-selling young novelists.
Benjemy : The unclassifiable Tunisian DJ
In which Sarah Ben Hamadi meets a key figure of Tunisia’s cultural underground.
Libyan Stories from the novel “Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table”
The Markaz Review presents Libya's Mohammed al-Naas in these exclusive excerpts translated by Rana Asfour.
“Gluttony” from Abbas Beydoun’s “Frankenstein’s Mirrors”
Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating sweets.