This excerpt from Play the Game by French-Algerian author Fatima Daas explores what it means to grow up...
3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Fatima Daas
The Markaz Review welcomes 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow, Translator and Writer Lara Vergnaud.
29 AUGUST 2025 • By TMR
Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's...
15 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
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
Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of...
14 MARCH 2025 • By Jonas Elbousty
A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to...
17 JANUARY 2025 • By Yasmeen Hanoosh
Poet and writer Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem and presently makes his home in Philadelphia.
9 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Ahmad Almallah
Brahim El Guabli argues that Morocco's disaster survivors must be able to communicate in their mother tongue.
25 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Devotional poems in Tamil by Andal, a poet as beloved in India as Rumi is around the world.
12 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Ravi Shankar
Brahim El-Guabli identifies how Amazigh activists have engaged with translation to revitalize their threatened language and culture.
14 AUGUST 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Syrian Jewish, Egyptian and French, Joyce Mansour was a profilic poet and Surrealist.
4 JULY 2023 • By Joyce Mansour
In a dystopian world, thanks to AI, people no longer die because they can be upgraded to better...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Fadi Zaghmout
