A new book highlights how Kurdish female and non-binary writers challenge norms and push boundaries.
14 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Matt Broomfield
This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world...
9 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
What do we choose to remember, and what do we choose to forget? A special monthly issue devoted...
7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By TMR
A bombing in Gaza destroys an entire family except for the protagonist of the short story and his...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Ghassan Ghassan
The Markaz Review presents a rare piece of prose in English translation from Kurdish writer Shalaw Habiba, translated...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Shalaw Habiba
Adib Rahhal reviews Hisham Matar's latest novel, in which the precariousness of existence and Libya serve as springboards.
25 MARCH 2024 • By Adib Rahhal
A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story...
13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
Novelist Elizabeth Louden joins TMR's Book Club moderated by Rana Asfour.
2 AUGUST 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
In and out of Turkish prisons for his unflinching political essays, Ahmet Altan returns with a new novella...
24 JULY 2023 • By Kaya Genç
TMR's literary editor introduces the 2023 double summer literary issue.
2 JULY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
A shrewd businesswoman runs a matchmaking agency in Amman that finds brides for male clients based on a...
2 JULY 2023 • By Natasha Tynes
In Ola Mustapha's new story, a man falls for the seduction of a film and it becomes the...
2 JULY 2023 • By Ola Mustapha
