Mother tongues, endlessly chimeric, endlessly beguiling, can become both dangerous baggage and precious commodity.
6 MARCH 2026 • By Lara Vergnaud
Two poems explore the contradictions within language and how they influence and reshape our perception of the world.
6 MARCH 2026 • By Hajer Requiq
The Markaz Review welcomes 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow, Translator and Writer Lara Vergnaud.
29 AUGUST 2025 • By TMR
When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Maryam Haidari
Yesmine Abida recalls the end of her family's time in Tripoli and the beginning of a life without...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Yesmine Abida
Tugrul Mende reviews a new book by Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik that explores the journey of the Maghreb Generation that...
30 OCTOBER 2023 • By Tugrul Mende
Bilingual poems, in Arabic and English, from Iman Mersal (Egypt), Ines Abassi (Tunisia) and Ashjan Hendi (Saudi Arabia).
11 OCTOBER 2023 • By Sarah Coolidge
The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite...
4 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By TMR
Sarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds...
17 JULY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Rose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Rose Issa
In her latest music column for TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the genre-defying Tunisian electro artist Ghoula.
20 MARCH 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Leila Aboulela
