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Victor Hugo and Islam: A Literary Bridge Between East and West

Victor Hugo and Islam: A Literary Bridge Between East and West

Victor Hugo’s way still guides those building bridges across languages, faiths, and histories in a time of fear.

4 JULY 2025 • By Yahia Lababidi
Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

The Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and...

12 JULY 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Palestine's shrines are a part of a heritage that has been intentionally erased since the Nakba of 1948,...

3 MAY 2024 • By Gabriel Polley
Hollywoodgate—New Doc Captures the Post-American Taliban

Hollywoodgate—New Doc Captures the Post-American Taliban

Iason Athanasiadis reviews a documentary of an Egyptian's observations of the first year of the Taliban's new regime.

19 APRIL 2024 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Religious Misogyny Personified in Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider

Religious Misogyny Personified in Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider

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
The Markaz Review Interview—Leila Aboulela, Writing Sudan

The Markaz Review Interview—Leila Aboulela, Writing Sudan

Yasmine Motawy interviews the critically-acclaimed Sudanese novelist and short story writer, Leila Aboulela.

29 MAY 2023 • By Yasmine Motawy
A Debut Novel, Between Two Moons, is set in “Arabland” Brooklyn

A Debut Novel, Between Two Moons, is set in “Arabland” Brooklyn

Novelist R.P. Finch reviews the debut novel of Aisha Abdel Gawad, set in the "Arabland" of Bay Ridge,...

15 MAY 2023 • By R.P. Finch
The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story

The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the film of a migrant story set in Greece that has just been nominated for...

8 MAY 2023 • By Iason Athanasiadis
An Interview with with Graphic Memoirist Malaka Gharib

An Interview with with Graphic Memoirist Malaka Gharib

Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Necati Sönmez
Why Muslim Palestinian “Mo” Preferred Catholic Confession to Therapy

Why Muslim Palestinian “Mo” Preferred Catholic Confession to Therapy

As a Muslim American and scholar of Islam, Sarah Eltantawi finds the new series from Mo Amer and...

7 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Sarah Eltantawi
Muslims in the Americas—a review of “Praying to the West”

Muslims in the Americas—a review of “Praying to the West”

Francisco Letelier, a non-Muslim, reviews Omar Mouallem's "Praying to the West" from the outside looking in.

19 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Farah Abdessamad
Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the new Ibrahim al-Koni translation of a story that recounts Islam's conquest of North Africa.

5 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Francisco Letelier
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