Cruising the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.
Tag: Morocco
The Afro-Amazigh World Cup Debate Revisited
A Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco, Brahim El Guabli sees Amazigh identity as embracing "unity based on diversity."
Moroccans Triumph at World Cup While Press Freedom Suffers
Samia Errazzouki recounts personal experience as a Moroccan American journalist working in Morocco.
Everyone has a Stake in Morocco’s Football Team
The Moroccan team's World Cup wins have galvanized their Arab and African fans and inspired millions around the world.
Love Has Everything to Do with Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan
Melissa Chemam reviews the new taboo-busting feature film from Moroccan director Maryam Touzani.
“Malika,” an excerpt from Abdellah Taïa’s Vivre à ta lumìere
In this excerpt from a chapter in his latest novel in French, Abdellah Taïa pays homage to his mother, his favorite heroine.
Three Ways to See Morocco from Across the Mediterranean
Nora Ounnas Leroy talks to three Moroccan artists participating in a Montpellier incubator project through the Festival Arabesques.
A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern
Register Here. The Markaz Review presents a roundtable conversation on Middle Eastern cuisine among contributors to the TMR • 20 FOOD issue, featuring personal stories and family recipes. This… Continue reading A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern
LA Sketches: Sneakers and the Man From Taroudant
A young artisan from Taroudant, Morocco now calls Los Angeles home and brings a particular flare to shoe design.
Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands
Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on the fascinating history of two of the world's great languages.
A Street in Marrakesh Revisited
In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life in Marrakesh.
Victims of Discrimination Never Forget in The Forgotten Ones
TMR reviews a film on discrimination in Israel and the original Jews of the Middle East and North Africa. The Forgotten Ones screened in October’s annual CINEMED festival in Montpellier and screens in the DOC NYC Fest on 11/09 (press screening), 11/14 and 11/15. More info.
My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)
Brahim El Guabli I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother is Black, and my father is Sahrawi. The only picture I own… Continue reading My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)
“Tattoos,” an excerpt from Karima Ahdad’s Amazigh-Moroccan novel “Cactus Girls”
In this excerpt from the Amazigh-Moroccan novel "Cactus Girls" by Karima Ahdad, a fierce small-town girl from the Rif named Sonya remembers what it was like growing up under the spell of heroic women. Like the cactus of the title, Ahdad’s women are survivors in a barren landscape, one filled…
Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa
TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle East.