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The End of Civilization as We Know It—a Catastrophology

The End of Civilization as We Know It—a Catastrophology

A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.

MAY 23, 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

History writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a...

FEBRUARY 7, 2025 • By Todd Reisz
Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...

JUNE 28, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Palestine's shrines are a part of a heritage that has been intentionally erased since the Nakba of 1948,...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Gabriel Polley
Do or Despair: Political Action in My Great Arab Melancholy

Do or Despair: Political Action in My Great Arab Melancholy

Katie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.

MARCH 3, 2024 • By Katie Logan
Albanian Poet Luljeta Lleshanaku

Albanian Poet Luljeta Lleshanaku

Poetry Markaz presents Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku with two poems from her latest book of poetry available in...

OCTOBER 11, 2023 • By Luljeta Lleshanaku
Newly Re-Opened, Beirut’s Sursock Museum is a Survivor

Newly Re-Opened, Beirut’s Sursock Museum is a Survivor

Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.

JUNE 12, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
How Bethlehem Evolved From Jerusalem’s Sleepy Backwater to a Global Town

How Bethlehem Evolved From Jerusalem’s Sleepy Backwater to a Global Town

Bethlehem native and novelist Karim Kattan reviews the new book by Jacob Norris that tells the 19th century...

MAY 15, 2023 • By Karim Kattan
Becoming Palestine Imagines a Liberated Future

Becoming Palestine Imagines a Liberated Future

Katie Logan reviews the latest book from Gil Hochberg, which studies Palestinian archives and artists while imagining a...

FEBRUARY 27, 2023 • By Katie Logan
Salman Rushdie’s Victory City: a Novel in Search of an Empire

Salman Rushdie’s Victory City: a Novel in Search of an Empire

Pushcart winner Anis Shivani reviews the latest novel by Salman Rushdie, who survived a nightmarish knife attack at...

FEBRUARY 20, 2023 • By Anis Shivani
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