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
Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.
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
Roger Assaf's poetic script for Jocelyne Saab's 1982 film about the siege of Beirut puts one in mind...
8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Roger Assaf
Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Tom Young's art raises important questions about studying images and the lasting impact of colonialism in the Arab...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Ziad Suidan
