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Palestine

30 May, 2025 • Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Doaa: From a Dreamworld to the Ashes of Displacement

A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst of a grinding war.

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15 May, 2025 • TMR

Editors’ 2025 Palestinian Lit List

May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.

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9 May, 2025 • Jordan Elgrably

Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza

Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

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2 May, 2025 • TMR

For Our 50th Issue, Writers Reflect on Going Home

In the 50th issue of The Markaz Review, diverse writers explore the return home in creative nonfiction, fiction excerpts and prose poems.

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2 May, 2025 • Myriam Cohenca

Neither Here Nor There

Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.

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28 March, 2025 • Iason Athanasiadis

Gaza, Sudan, Israel/Palestine Documentaries Show in Thessaloniki

Three documentaries screened in Thessaloniki shed light on conflicts often absent from international media headlines.

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7 March, 2025 • Alia Yunis

A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams of her homeland.

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21 February, 2025 • Jim Quilty

Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Jim Quilty interviews Paris-based Gazan artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut about his new show, "Just in Case" at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, on through March 25.

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14 February, 2025 • Rebecca Ruth Gould

Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide

What two new books from Omar El Akkad and Mohammed El-Kurd tell us about the war on the Palestinian people.

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7 February, 2025 • Francisco Letelier

Ravaged by Fire

Francisco Letelier connects the devastation of fire and climate change with the decimation of Gaza, and other disasters over time.

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7 February, 2025 • Malu Halasa

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a psycho-social-virtual memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

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7 February, 2025 • Chin-chin Yap

Flight Plans: From Gaza to Singapore

Palestinian civil aviation is not only a symbol of freedom, but is deeply connected to their quest for sovereignty.

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31 January, 2025 • Fadi Kattan

“Culinary Palestine”—Fadi Kattan in an excerpt from Sumud

Celebrity Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan presents stories and recipes from his long experience cooking in Bethlehem and beyond.

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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine

Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to the west's racism and indifference.

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17 January, 2025 • Guy Mannes-Abbott

Radwa Ashour’s Classic Granada Now in a New English Edition

Ashour’s "Granada" trilogy arrives during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and a long arc completes a circle of horror.

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