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In the 50th issue of The Markaz Review, diverse writers explore the return home in creative nonfiction, fiction excerpts and prose poems.
02 MAY, 2025 • By TMR
A trip to Cashmere in Washington state prompts reflections on colonization, displacement, and belonging.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Nafeesa Syeed
The Sursock Museum presents "Ode to the South," a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid Baalbaki, 1940-2013.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Karina El Helou
Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Salar Abdoh
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Lara Kassem
Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in Australia.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.
02 MAY, 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
