Lebanon Archives

Forbidden or taboo love? In a world where we live free, how could such stymied conventions continue to...

24 OCTOBER 2025 • By Souseh

Join Jordan Elgrably, Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz Review and Senior Editor Lina Mounzer for readings from TMR's newest...

19 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Biswajit Sengupta

Ali Cherri’s Marseille show, on view until January 4, 2026, deconstructs the museum from the inside out.

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Naima Morelli

As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.

1 AUGUST 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis

Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on...

13 JUNE 2025 • By Jim Quilty

The writer explores Lebanon's archives for traces of her family who left 150 years ago, contemplating our responsibilities...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Amelia Izmanki

Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the...

30 MAY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould

A major name in Arabic poetry, Jawdat Fakhreddine establishes a revolutionary dialogue between international, modernist values and the...

20 MAY 2025 • By Jawdat Fakhreddine

The Sursock Museum in Beirut presents "Ode to the South," a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid...

2 MAY 2025 • By Karina El Helou

My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // …...

2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem

"Suspended Disbelief" interrogates the tension between belief and doubt in the folklore and collective psyche of the Mediterranean...

11 APRIL 2025 • By Marta Mendes

The Markaz Review responds to the results of the 2024 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump prevailed...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably