A reflective short story that explores the bonds of spectral friendships, shaped by longing and a deep nostalgia...
3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Aya ChalabeeA poet and sage voice in international literature, Pramila Venkateswaran straddles two worlds, bringing together South Asia and...
4 JULY 2025 • By Pramila VenkateswaranGaza's senior poet Nasser Rabah presents two poems from his first collected works in English, new from City...
4 JULY 2025 • By Nasser RabahIn the 50th issue of The Markaz Review, diverse writers explore the return home in creative nonfiction, fiction...
2 MAY 2025 • By TMRNajwan Darwish, author of nine books of poetry, on Palestine, love and loss, from his new definitive poetry...
22 APRIL 2025 • By Najwan DarwishZahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their...
20 DECEMBER 2024 • By Zahra HankirIranian American poet Annahita Mahdavi West presents two poems, "Exile" and "City of War" from her book "Dusty...
19 DECEMBER 2024 • By Annahita Mahdavi WestLarissa Sansour is a Palestinian-born artist whose photography, film, sculpture, and installation art is bound up with visions...
6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Larissa SansourAcclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora, Olivia Elias probe the upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries.
24 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Olivia EliasThe poetry of Waqas Khwaja captures in image, narrative voice, and personal memory the terrible beauty of an...
15 OCTOBER 2024 • By Waqas KhwajaSelma Dabbagh reviews Avi Shlaim's memoir about his coming-of-age as an Iraqi Jew, living as a minority in...
19 JULY 2024 • By Selma DabbaghA play about the French Revolution highlights the experiences of Syrian actors and theatre makers as artists in...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Mudar Alhaggi