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5 November, 2023 • Rabi Georges

Interview: Oorvi Sharma, Architectural Researcher and Designer

Rabi Georges reviews and interviews innovative architect Oorvi Sharma in Abu Dhabi.

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5 November, 2023 • Lama Elsharif

The Floods of Derna: Historical Parallels to Libya’s Crisis

Lama Elsharif finds that Derna’s harrowing flood proves a surprising catalyst for unity in a nation scarred by decades-long conflict and division.

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5 November, 2023 • Rana Asfour

Sustainability: Rethinking the City in the United Arab Emirates

Rana Asfour on the UAE's intervention solutions for energy-efficient, sustainable buildings rooted in the city.

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12 June, 2023 • Nazli Tarzi

Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation

Nazli Tarzi reviews an adventure travel and climate change story of what humanity stands to lose with the death of a great river.

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4 June, 2023 • Jordan Elgrably

EARTH: Our Only Home

The editors explain why they chose the EARTH theme for the 32nd issue of The Markaz Review.

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4 June, 2023 • Hassan Abdulrazzak

Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love

London-based Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazak enthuses on the 2023 Shubbak theatre arts extravaganza, June 23-July 9.

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5 February, 2023 • Susan Schulman

Dispossessed by Climate—Iraqi Refugees in Their Own Country

Writer-photographer Susan Schulman documents the climate devastation that has sent many Iraqis into internal exile.

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28 November, 2022 • Mariam Elnozahy

Our Shared Future: Marwa Arsanios’ “Reverse Shot”

Mariam Elnozahy reviews the new exhibit at London's Mosaic Rooms that looks at ecology and politics in Lebanon.

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7 November, 2022 • Rana Asfour

Abu Dhabi Shows Noura Ali-Ramahi’s “Allow Me Not to Explain”

Rana Asfour talks to an Emirati about her ideas and development as an artist.

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16 May, 2022 • Farah Abdessamad

Film Review: “How to Kill a Cloud” Brings Rain to the UAE

Farah Abdessamad is fascinated by a climate change documentary about would-be rainmakers in the UAE.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.

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15 November, 2021 • Omar El Akkad

Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating the conditions for a global refugee crisis the world is not prepared for.

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15 November, 2021 • Megan Marshall

Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.

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10 January, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Remember 2020 Not for Covid-19 or Trump Chaos, But Climate Change

Columnist Iason Athanasiadis remembers 2020 not so much for the pandemic or the chaos of Trump but what humankind has wrought on nature.

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