Maps are narratives of the past, present, and future, powerful chronicles of presence and absence, ownership and theft,...
29 AUGUST 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.
8 AUGUST 2025 • By Ahmed Naji
A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst...
30 MAY 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see...
2 MAY 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews polyglot Tony Molho's memoir about the Holocaust in Greece and his family history.
18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Katie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.
3 MARCH 2024 • By Katie Logan
In tone, "Rotten Evidence" is cynical, bitterly funny, and oftentimes tender without ever being sentimental, writes Lina Mounzer.
12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Thérèse Soukkar Chehade reviews Laila Halaby's memoir about coming to terms with the trauma of losing her first...
28 AUGUST 2023 • By Thérèse Soukar Chehade
email books@themarkaz.org to join this event on Zoom March 2023 BookGroup Selection is The Girl Who Fell to Earth,...
20 MARCH 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.
15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Necati Sönmez
Hannah Fox reviews the Birmingham memoir by fashion artist Osman Yousefzada.
13 JUNE 2022 • By Shreya Parikh
Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Abbas Baydoun
