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
Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences,...
1 APRIL 2024 • By TMR
Nazli Tarzi reviews a book that challenges the uncritical view of eyeliner as a mere “exercise in vanity”...
19 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Nazli Tarzi
In the aftermath of a long war, a man in Iran searches for meaning, hopes for love, and...
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Maryam Haidari
Four editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.
22 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.
15 JANUARY 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
Bavand Karim reviews the film "Holy Spider" by Ali Abbassi which coldly deconstructs the brutal nature of Iran’s...
11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Bavand Karim
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Maryam Haidari
Matt Broomfield reviews the first anthology of Kurdish science fiction, one that envisions new possibilities for Kurdish self-determination.
28 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Matt Broomfield
