Exhibition Exile—a Profile of the Kurdish Exile Museum
Goran Candan founded the Kurdish Exile Museum to preserve an endangered heritage. Today, his life’s work is at risk.
Memory as Resistance: An Interview with Zeynep Esmeray
A self-described “memory carrier” has spent her life fighting for LGBTQI+, trans, and Kurdish rights, often through theatrical defiance.
Zehra Doğan, Kurdish Resistance Artist
Much of Doğan’s groundbreaking art was created in prison out of the materials at hand: hair, coffee, blood.
مقتطف من رواية مصنع السحاب لحامد عبد الصمد
في أحدث روايات حامد عبد الصمد، مصنع السحاب، يتحول مصنع لقطع غيار السيارات إلى مركز للقتل الرحيم، تسير الأمور وفقًا لترتيب دقيق، حتى يتغير كل شيء في النهاية.
Are the “Birth Pangs” of a New Middle East Finally Here?
A new Middle East is visible through the debris, but not the one dearly wanted by the United States and Israel.
Palestine is the World in its Future Tense
The 61st Venice Biennale is one of many cultural institutions beginning to crack under the weight of their own hypocrisy over the Gaza genocide.
A Conversation in the Library—Centuries in the Making
An exploration of how an Ottoman slave became the mother of a library on a Greek island — and what her descendants did with it.
مقتطف من ماء ورد لسنابل عبد الرحمن
من حجرتها في تونس الخلابة، تتأمل سنابل عبد الرحمن حرب الإبادة في غزة بعين دامعة.
The Markaz Review appoints Lina Mounzer as Editor-in-Chief
Beirut-Based writer, translator, senior editor steps into new leadership role.
“The Melancholy of the Mermaid”—fiction
A dystopian satire grounded in the refugee crisis, austerity, bureaucratic collapse, and the slow destruction of a Greek island.
Searching for Perseus
A writer returns to her homeland — Lebanon — after years abroad, tracing the fault lines between memory and ruin.
“The Lens of the North and the Lung of the South”—fiction
This haunting tale explores the Mediterranean as an artistic inspiration, a deceptively hopeful bridge, and a vast cemetery.