Lebanon

Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

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
A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

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

2 MAY 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Between Belief and Doubt: Ramzi Mallat’s Suspended Disbelief

Between Belief and Doubt: Ramzi Mallat’s Suspended Disbelief

"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 Editor’s Letter Following the US 2024 Presidential Election

The Editor’s Letter Following the US 2024 Presidential Election

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

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
The Haunting Reality of Beirut, My City

The Haunting Reality of Beirut, My City

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
Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon

Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon

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
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed

Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed

A Beiruti interrogates her country's perennial condition with its neighbor in the aftermath of October 7 and the...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
The Last Millefeuille in Beirut

The Last Millefeuille in Beirut

As Beirut anticipates a military invasion, MK Harb's short story about two friends sharing a slice of cake...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By MK Harb
Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

Lebanon’s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech

When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Meditations on Palestinian Exile and Return

Meditations on Palestinian Exile and Return

The essence of Palestinian resilience, survival, and resistance is rooted in dispossession, as noted by Dana El Saleh.

16 AUGUST 2024 • By Dana El Saleh
Ripped from Memoirs of a Lebanese Policeman

Ripped from Memoirs of a Lebanese Policeman

True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina...

5 JULY 2024 • By Fawzi Zabyan
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