Libya

Why Out of Our Minds?

Why Out of Our Minds?

Our senior editor in Beirut, Lina Mounzer, relates intimately to the theme of TMR 53, having experienced civil...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

“The Mulberry Tree”—an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam

In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...

JULY 5, 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
Artists Exploring Libya’s History, Cultural Resilience and Rebirth

Artists Exploring Libya’s History, Cultural Resilience and Rebirth

Two exhibitions on Libya try to navigate between what to bring along from the country's past and what...

MARCH 3, 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Illuminated Reading for 2024: Our Anticipated Titles

Illuminated Reading for 2024: Our Anticipated Titles

Four editors at The Markaz Review share some of their most anticipated titles publishing in 2024.

JANUARY 22, 2024 • By TMR
Days of Oranges—Libya’s Thawra

Days of Oranges—Libya’s Thawra

Yesmine Abida recalls the end of her family's time in Tripoli and the beginning of a life without...

DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Yesmine Abida
Demolition and Recreation in Benghazi: Interview with Sarri Elfaitouri

Demolition and Recreation in Benghazi: Interview with Sarri Elfaitouri

Sarri Elfaitouri on urbanism, social reforms, and the legacy of colonialism in Libya after the March 2023 demolition...

DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Naima Morelli
My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story...

NOVEMBER 13, 2023 • By Naima Morelli
The Floods of Derna: Historical Parallels to Libya’s Crisis

The Floods of Derna: Historical Parallels to Libya’s Crisis

Lama Elsharif finds that Derna’s harrowing flood proves a surprising catalyst for unity in a nation scarred by...

NOVEMBER 5, 2023 • By Lama Elsharif
Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration

Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration

Malu Halasa tells the story of refugees seeking asylum in Britain who brave the dangerous waters of the...

MARCH 5, 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the new Ibrahim al-Koni translation of a story that recounts Islam's conquest of North Africa.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 • By Francisco Letelier
Mohammed al-Naas—a Young Libyan Novelist to Watch

Mohammed al-Naas—a Young Libyan Novelist to Watch

Ghazi Gheblawi   In 2017 Darf Publishers, an independent publishing company based in London, where I am a...

JULY 18, 2022 • By Ghazi Gheblawi
Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”

Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”

Nora Lester Murad reviews a "far-fetched" story of a marriage between a Palestinian Muslim and an American Jew.

MAY 16, 2022 • By Youssef Rakha
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