Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a young Iranian woman in Tehran, albeit vehicled by fiction.
20 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
War and documentary photographer Maher Attar opens the Art District in Beirut to nurture other artists and beauty.
13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Nicole Hamouche
Novelist Mai Al-Nakib opines that despite the bombs and the bullets, Arab voices and cultural narratives are on the rise and gaining momentum.
06 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
The editors of The Markaz Review recommended 20 of the best contemporary Palestinian novels, story collections and nonfiction.
06 NOVEMBER 2023 • By TMR
All the pasts of war are still contemporary, and continue shaping the present, killing its denizens, and erasing their memories.
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Eman Quotah reviews a new anthology of love poems by Arab poets writing in English in the diaspora and in country.
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Eman Quotah
Robin Yassin-Kassab pays tribute to late Syrian writer and humanist Khaled Khalifa, who died at the age of 59.
16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Robin Yassin-Kassab
Poet and novelist Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a refugee from Aleppo who winds up on the streets of Beirut.
09 OCTOBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
Selma Dabbagh reviews a masterpiece that gives insight into the life of a remarkable woman artist striving to live on her own terms.
25 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Selma Dabbagh
Aomar Boom describes the centrality of donkeys and mules to life in the unforgiving earthquake-shattered terrain of the High Atlas Mountains.
25 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Aomar Boum
As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
07 AUGUST 2023 • By Karim Goury
Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.
12 JUNE 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
