Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein
Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under...
5 JULY 2024 • By Diaa Jubaili
From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s...
10 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...
3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.
3 MAY 2024 • By Nabil Salih
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
In the aftermath of his father's death by shrapnel from an Iraqi shell, Dilan Qadir contends with a...
28 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Dilan Qadir
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
Ahmed Twaij, a physician and journalist with experience in Iraq and other war zones, argues Hamas and ISIS...
27 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Ahmed Twaij
The Markaz Review presents an interview with Oxford historian and author Avi Shlaim, with guest interviewer Layla Magrhibi,...
2 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Megan Jarrell
