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Blue, The Arabian Red Fox

Blue, The Arabian Red Fox

An artist watching starvation in Gaza from afar befriends a fox in Abu Dhabi. Nature, the destroyer, also...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Noura Ali-Ramahi
No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door

No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door

Alex Tan reviews the new chronology of poems from Lebanon's bard of war and exile, Wadih Saadeh, translated...

24 JANUARY 2025 • By Alex Tan
Why We Stay in Beirut, Despite Its Countless Crises

Why We Stay in Beirut, Despite Its Countless Crises

TMR's editor in chief, Jordan Elgrably, asks four Beirutis why they stay, and how they manage, enduring one...

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
The Light at the End of the Tunnel

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

A moving testimony to life, death, and the human condition by an Egyptian journalist who was blessed, and...

2 JULY 2023 • By Mohamed Aboelgheit
The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar

A Pultizer winner for his play "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar is the current President of PEN America and author...

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
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