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Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

Imagining Ghanem—My Return to Lebanon

The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than...

2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Alia Yunis
The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

A Pultizer winner for his play "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar is the current President of PEN America and author...

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari

Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari

An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result...

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Inaam Kachachi
Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project

Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project

Viola Shafik profiles Berlin-based Palestinian photographer Mohamed Badarne.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Settling: Towards an Arabic translation of the English word “Home”

Settling: Towards an Arabic translation of the English word “Home”

Hisham Bustani meditates on the asylum seeker's struggle to find a place to call home.

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Hisham Bustani
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