Lebanon

From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

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
An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

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
Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems

Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems

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

20 MAY 2025 • By Jawdat Fakhreddine
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
 
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