Turkish artist Sena Başöz explores the metaphor of the magnolia and the advent of the apocalypse within the realm of imagination.
08 JANUARY 2024 • By Sena Başöz, Alicia Kismet Eler
Gaza's professional para-cycling team for amputee athletes rise above Gaza's darkest days through determination and excellence in sport.
25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Killed in Gaza by the Israeli military, Refaat Alareer's spirit and words continue to live on in his students, writes Yousef M. Al Jamal.
18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Yousef M. Aljamal
Firsthand accounts of the war by Hossam Madhoun, a theatre-maker reporting from the rubble of Gaza.
18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
A Gazan theatre artist, constantly endangered by the onslaught of Israeli planes, drones and bombs, writes from the heart of the matter.
11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
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
A Libyan writer from Derna laments the floods that came not long after she devoted a short story collection to her hometown.
13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
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
