Karim Goury reviews the Iranian film, "My Favorite Cake," a celebration of love in the twilight of life,...
17 JANUARY 2025 • By Karim Goury
A review of a book that offers a portrait of a royal dynasty whose decline has significantly shaped...
10 JANUARY 2025 • By Azadeh Moaveni
The Markaz Review responds to the results of the 2024 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump prevailed...
8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri
Karim Goury reviews "Tatami," a sports combat film depicting the conflict between suppressive male law and individual female...
11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Karim Goury
In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Western democracies share responsibility for the political upheaval that has shaken the Middle East from the 20th century...
13 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Dina Rezk
Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
15 JULY 2024 • By Erfan Mojib
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
5 JULY 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Somaia Ramish's poems, originally in Persian, decry violence against women, underage or forced marriage, poverty and the impact...
12 JUNE 2024 • By Somaia Ramish
An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Mehrnaz Daneshvar
