A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.
13 JUNE 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
A captivating novel about a woman’s challenging journey and her sacrifices to stay true to herself in a...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Nejoud Al-Yagout
Bethlehem-born poet Ahmad Almallah describes his trials and tribulations getting published in English in the United States.
21 AUGUST 2023 • By Ahmad Almallah
Katie Logan reviews a graphic novel that blends the real world with the fantastical in a coming of...
31 JULY 2023 • By Katie Logan
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
A Pultizer winner for his play "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar is the current President of PEN America and author...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Saudi American novelist Eman Quotah reminisces on a university peace studies class that traveled to Israel/Palestine.
15 DECEMBER 2022 • By Eman Quotah
Hannah Fox reviews the Birmingham memoir by fashion artist Osman Yousefzada.
13 JUNE 2022 • By Shreya Parikh
Mischa Geracoulis reviews an Arab-Jewish food for peace documentary shot in Haifa.
15 APRIL 2022 • By Alia Mossallam
Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on...
24 JANUARY 2022 • By Nouha Homad
Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer"...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Ahmed Naji
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders...
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
