7 February, 2022 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq after the American invasion in 2003.
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7 February, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably
Jordan Elgrably reviews the recent feature film from directors Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf.
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7 February, 2022 • Deborah Williams
Abu Dhabi-based professor Deborah Williams contrasts the new American censorship of "Maus" and Harry Potter book burning with her own potentially inflammatory syllabus.
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7 February, 2022 • Mike Booth
Every warm-blooded Arab loves a good conspiracy theory — so, it turns out, do many Americans, observes cultural critic Mike Booth.
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31 January, 2022 • El Habib Louai
Amazigh Moroccan poet El Habib Louai reviews a recent anthology that has warmed the hearts of English-reading Moroccans during the pandemic.
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31 January, 2022 • Mehnaz Afridi
Mehnaz Afridi reviews the new book of short stories by a Pakistani American writer determined to disrupt her readers' expectations.
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24 January, 2022 • Justin Stearns
Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on the fascinating history of two of the world's great languages.
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24 January, 2022 • Yahia Dabbous
Even as the despotic rulers of post-revolution Egypt attempt to remake greater Cairo, hoping to gloss over the regime's dismal human rights record, one writer sees through the smoke and mirrors.
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24 January, 2022 • Melissa Chemam
This month, TMR's music critic, Melissa Chemam, stumbles upon an unexpected exhibit of the history and influence of raï, chaabi and "Beur" politics on the French body politic.
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15 January, 2022 • Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour
Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer" in exile in America.
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15 January, 2022 • Abeer Esber, Nouha Homad
TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from Abeer Esber's fourth novel, translated here by Nouha Homad, about a Damascene woman on the run, hiding out in Dubai.
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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 • Mbarek Sryfi
Moroccan American poet and writer Mbarek Sryfi reads from his work in an exclusive video prepared for The Markaz Review.
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