Rana Asfour interviews fellow Jordanian writer Hisham Bustani about his stories, writing in Arabic and ideas on history...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Rana Asfour
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By TMR
Music writer Melissa Chemam interviews Rasha Nahas on her new Arabic-language album, "Amrat."
23 JANUARY 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
Jenine Abboushi in her latest travel essay, returns to Morocco for a long-overdue visit.
9 JANUARY 2023 • By Jenine Abboushi
Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw present their book of Ghabib ghazals, translated from the Urdu.
16 OCTOBER 2022 • By Tony Barnstone
Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with...
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ahmed Farouk
Viola Shafik profiles Jihan El-Tahiri and Myriam El Haïk, two Arab artists in the 2022 Berlin Biennale.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
The Markaz Review presents Libya's Mohammed al-Naas in these exclusive excerpts translated by Rana Asfour.
18 JULY 2022 • By Mohammed Alnaas
A writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for...
11 JULY 2022 • By Ayelet Tsabari
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Maryam Mortaz
A bold excerpt from the new Saqi anthology, "This Arab is Queer," in which a non-binary person from...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Karén Jallatyan
In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
