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7 February, 2025 • Todd Reisz

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 connecting point rather than a delimited void.

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28 June, 2024 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

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, but also the violence of the past, both recent and distant.

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3 May, 2024 • Gabriel Polley

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, writes Gabriel Polley.

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3 March, 2024 • Katie Logan

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.

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11 October, 2023 • Luljeta Lleshanaku

Albanian Poet Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

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12 June, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

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.

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15 May, 2023 • Karim Kattan

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 story of the town's evolution.

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27 February, 2023 • Katie Logan

Becoming Palestine Imagines a Liberated Future

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

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20 February, 2023 • Anis Shivani

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 Chautauqua last summer.

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