Tunisia

The Markaz Review Welcomes New Fellow, Lara Vergnaud

The Markaz Review Welcomes New Fellow, Lara Vergnaud

The Markaz Review welcomes 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow, Translator and Writer Lara Vergnaud.

29 AUGUST 2025 • By TMR
A Treatise on Love

A Treatise on Love

When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Maryam Haidari
Days of Oranges—Libya’s Thawra

Days of Oranges—Libya’s Thawra

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
The Maghreb Generation—North African Creatives for a Postcolonial Future

The Maghreb Generation—North African Creatives for a Postcolonial Future

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
Home: New Arabic Poems in Translation

Home: New Arabic Poems in Translation

Bilingual poems, in Arabic and English, from Iman Mersal (Egypt), Ines Abassi (Tunisia) and Ashjan Hendi (Saudi Arabia).

11 OCTOBER 2023 • By Sarah Coolidge
World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier

World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier

The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite...

4 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By TMR
Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

Sarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds...

17 JULY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Garden of Africa: Interview with Rachid Koraïchi

Garden of Africa: Interview with Rachid Koraïchi

Rose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor...

4 JUNE 2023 • By Rose Issa
Meet Ghoula—Arabic Music Remixed Via Tunisia

Meet Ghoula—Arabic Music Remixed Via Tunisia

In her latest music column for TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the genre-defying Tunisian electro artist Ghoula.

20 MARCH 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
“Raise Your Head High”—new fiction from Leila Aboulela

“Raise Your Head High”—new fiction from Leila Aboulela

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
Nabeul, Mon Amour

Nabeul, Mon Amour

Yesmine Abida, a Tunisian in the diaspora, returns home to document the last vestiges of Nabeul's once-thriving Jewish...

5 MARCH 2023 • By Yesmine Abida
Benjemy : The unclassifiable Tunisian DJ

Benjemy : The unclassifiable Tunisian DJ

In which Sarah Ben Hamadi meets a key figure of Tunisia’s cultural underground.

16 JANUARY 2023 • By Sarah Ben Hamadi
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