Rachel Campbell finds that Ruqaya Izzidien's debut novel set in Iraq provides counter-narratives to the country's early 20th-century...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Rachel Campbell
THE JANUARY BOOKGROUP SELECTION IS is Out of Mesopotamia, by Salar Abdoh (no bookgroup meeting in December). The discussion...
28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Biswajit Sengupta
Rana Asfour reviews the third novel from Dutch Iraqi writer Rodaan Al Galidi.
22 AUGUST 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews Mai Al-Nakib's debut novel, in which the protagonist always thought she would leave her country.
27 JUNE 2022 • By Rana Asfour
World Refugee Day is the first of seven days during which refugees will be recognized in events across...
20 JUNE 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
The author of the novel "An Unlasting Home" recalls stories of African slaves in Iraq and Kuwait.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Translator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Hawra Al-Nadawi
Register Here. The Markaz Review presents a roundtable conversation on Middle Eastern cuisine among contributors to the...
4 MAY 2022 • By
Washington DC's artist-entrepreneur-philanthropist (and one-time mayoral candidate) Andy Shallal dishes on matters of hunger and racism.
15 APRIL 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
In which Philip Grant muses on Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s tenth century cookbook, "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭabīkh" and cooking and baking...
15 APRIL 2022 • By Philip Grant
Melissa Chemam is swept away by an Iraqi American artist's latest exhibit at Mosaic Rooms in London.
28 MARCH 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Women's rights activist Maryam Zar reviews the memoir by a valiant survivor of ISIS who won the Nobel...
7 MARCH 2022 • By Myriam Gurba
