migration

Visions of the Mediterranean from Morocco

Visions of the Mediterranean from Morocco

An artist and "artivist" from Larache, Morocco shares two paintings that reflect his perceptions of life along the...

1 MAY 2026 • By Mohamed El Metmari
Tangerinn—an excerpt

Tangerinn—an excerpt

In a crowded bar on the Calabrian coast, love and shame grow side by side as a child...

1 MAY 2026 • By Emanuela Anechoum
Don’t Forget to Say I Love You: Notes on Water

Don’t Forget to Say I Love You: Notes on Water

A daughter recalls her father’s near-loss in a river, following the water outward into what the Mediterranean remembers.

1 MAY 2026 • By Gabriela Mitrushi
Three Artists, Five Writers on Mother Tongues

Three Artists, Five Writers on Mother Tongues

TMR asked a group of writers and artists how they negotiate identity between a mother tongue and other...

6 MARCH 2026 • By Jordan Elgrably
Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...

9 MAY 2025 • By Elena Pare
The Hybrid — The Case of Michael Vatikiotis

The Hybrid — The Case of Michael Vatikiotis

Rana Haddad interviews hybrid hopscotching writer Michael Vatikiotis on his colorful life and work spanning continents.

18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Rana Haddad
Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences,...

1 APRIL 2024 • By TMR
The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.

7 MARCH 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
To Receive Asylum, You First Have to be Believed, and Accepted

To Receive Asylum, You First Have to be Believed, and Accepted

Mischa Geracoulis reviews the new book from Dina Nayeri on refugees and asylum seekers who must be believed...

5 MARCH 2023 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc—a “Permanent Immigrant”

Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc—a “Permanent Immigrant”

Immigrant poet Mihaela Muscaliuc has wandered half her life, far afield from her native Romania, and is always...

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Mihaela Moscaliuc
Changing Colors — Reflections on The Last White Man

Changing Colors — Reflections on The Last White Man

Jordan Elgrably reads a book about white fear and racism and finds that colorism isn't our only problem.

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Two Syrian Brothers Find Themselves in “We Are From There”

Two Syrian Brothers Find Themselves in “We Are From There”

Angélique Crux reviews the award-winning documentary from Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Tanios.

22 AUGUST 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
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