5 February, 2023 • Jordan Elgrably
TMR Interview Ayad Akhtar Interviewed by Jordan Elgrably This interview with playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar took place on the 14th of September, 2020 — the same month… Continue reading The Markaz Review Interview—Ayad Akhtar
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5 February, 2023 • Dunya Mikhail
Dunya Mikhail is a UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture laureate who has also won a UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.
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5 February, 2023 • Mihaela Moscaliuc
Immigrant poet Mihaela Muscaliuc has wandered half her life, far afield from her native Romania, and is always in motion.
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5 February, 2023 • Malu Halasa
Iraqi lawyers and activists in a Baghdad-based NGO have been working to stop honor killings, but were unable to help Tiba al-Ali, reports Malu Halasa.
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5 February, 2023 • Susan Schulman
Writer-photographer Susan Schulman documents the climate devastation that has sent many Iraqis into internal exile.
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5 February, 2023 • Rana Asfour
A list of must-read Iraqi fiction, from Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad" to Sinan Antoon's "The Book of Collateral Damage."
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5 February, 2023 • Inaam Kachachi
An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result of war and political oppression.
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5 February, 2023 • Hassan Blasim
This bleak and hyper real short story by Hassan Blasim is reminiscent of Ghassan Kanafani's novella "Men in the Sun."
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5 February, 2023 • Mischa Geracoulis
Mischa Geracoulis interviews Texas-based multimedia artist Lahib Jaddo on her complex relationship with Iraq.
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5 February, 2023 • Melissa Chemam
Melissa Chemam profiles Iraqi Kurdish musician-composer Hardi Kurda and his projects Space 21 and Archive Khanah: Sounds from Iraq.
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5 February, 2023 • Nada Ghosn
Nada Ghosn talks to sociologist Zahra Ali, author of "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation."
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5 February, 2023 • Rachel Campbell
Rachel Campbell finds that Ruqaya Izzidien's debut novel set in Iraq provides counter-narratives to the country's early 20th-century history.
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30 January, 2023 • TMR
A journalist in Tehran walks defiantly without covering her hair through one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.
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30 January, 2023 • Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa tours the exuberant exhibition from artist Soheila Sokhanvari that celebrates strong Iranian women.
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