Our senior editor in Beirut, Lina Mounzer, relates intimately to the theme of TMR 53, having experienced civil...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
Two exhibitions on Libya try to navigate between what to bring along from the country's past and what...
3 MARCH 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Four editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.
22 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
Yesmine Abida recalls the end of her family's time in Tripoli and the beginning of a life without...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Yesmine Abida
Sarri Elfaitouri on urbanism, social reforms, and the legacy of colonialism in Libya after the March 2023 demolition...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story...
13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
Lama Elsharif finds that Derna’s harrowing flood proves a surprising catalyst for unity in a nation scarred by...
5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Lama Elsharif
Malu Halasa tells the story of refugees seeking asylum in Britain who brave the dangerous waters of the...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Malu Halasa
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
Ghazi Gheblawi In 2017 Darf Publishers, an independent publishing company based in London, where I am a...
18 JULY 2022 • By Ghazi Gheblawi
Nora Lester Murad reviews a "far-fetched" story of a marriage between a Palestinian Muslim and an American Jew.
16 MAY 2022 • By Youssef Rakha
