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An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
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Samia Errazzouki recounts personal experience as a Moroccan American journalist working in Morocco.
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Author and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi must be released by Iranian authorities immediately.
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The Markaz Review joins 15 Nobel Prize for Literature laureates and millions around the world in calling for...
7 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Storyteller Sahand Sahebdivani remembers the late Turkish firebrand Aziz Nesin who wanted to translate Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic...
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Jordan Elgrably Imagine, if you will, being put on trial for publishing poems and stories extolling the...
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