World Picks from the Editors: Oct 28 – Nov 10
The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several world events and books.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several world events and books.
Post Oct. 7, Robin Yassin-Kassab assesses the West’s falsehoods and the challenges facing the Palestinians, the Israelis and the wider Middle East.
All the pasts of war are still contemporary, and continue shaping the present, killing its denizens, and erasing their memories.
Eman Quotah reviews a new anthology of love poems by Arab poets writing in English in the diaspora and in country.
Sophie Kazan explores the Middle Eastern artists and galleries on display when Frieze London celebrates its 20th anniversary.
A Kurdish boy in Sulemani province in northern Iraq, near the Iranian border, would do anything to own a proper pair of shoes.
Dallia Abdel-Moniem has always loved her native city, but when she returned from abroad 10 years ago, it was with renewed hope for Sudan.
Prefacing our special Palestine issue, senior editor Lina Mounzer attempts to express the horror that has become the reality in Gaza.
Exile retold through embroidered Palestinian stories, by documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi.
Taline Voskeritchian extolls a Palestinian's lifetime commitment to art as a powerful testament to human resilience.
Dalia Hatuqa reviews an intimate account of the "Jaba Bus" deaths that illuminates the harsh reality of living under Israeli occupation.
A new book sheds light on Palestine and Zionism under the British Mandate, providing keys to parse the enduring Arab-Israeli conflict.
Robin Yassin-Kassab pays tribute to late Syrian writer and humanist Khaled Khalifa, who died at the age of 59.
The latest breach of a cease fire agreement in Azerbaijan left Armenians in Artsakh with nothing to rely on, writes Seta Kabranian-Melkonian.
The editors of The Markaz Review recommends several world events from Oct 13 — Oct 27, 2023.