4 May, 2022 •
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
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15 April, 2022 • Layla Maghribi
London-based journalist Layla Maghribi recalls her family dinners in Libyan, Palestinian and Syrian culinary traditions.
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15 March, 2022 • Nouri Al-Jarrah
Three poems of love and desire, composed in Beirut during the darkest days of the civil war, and war within war, by exiled Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah.
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15 March, 2022 • Khalil Younes
Syrian artist and writer Khalil Younes recalls the strained sexuality of Martyrs Square in Damascus.
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7 March, 2022 • Anna Lekas Miller
Observing the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a Lebanese American journalist in London, married to a Syrian refugee, finds the racist double standard on refugees unsettling.
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24 February, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably
Letter from the Editor: Russia’s Attack on Ukraine seen from European and Middle Eastern Vantage Points
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15 January, 2022 • Iason Athanasiadis
Photographer, documentarian and journalist Iason Athanasiadis shares images from more than 10 years of reporting from Afghanistan to Greece and back.
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15 January, 2022 • Iason Athanasiadis
Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for asylum in Europe.
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15 January, 2022 • Thomas Dallal
Thomas Dallal reviews Haider Rashid's new feature film, "Europa," Iraq’s foreign feature film entry to the upcoming 94th Academy Awards.
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15 January, 2022 • Layla AlAmmar
On the occasion of the paperback publication of Layla AlAmmar's novel Silence is a Sense, TMR presents this excerpt selected by the author.
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10 January, 2022 • Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.
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15 December, 2021 • Nouha Homad
Writer, translator and artist Nouha Hamad tells three tales passed down as family legend connecting the 19th and 20th centuries.
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29 November, 2021 • Rana Haddad
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders see her country.
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