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Three stories published every Friday

Messages from Gaza Now / 2

Firsthand accounts of the war by Hossam Madhoun, a theatre-maker reporting from the rubble of Gaza.

18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun

Messages From Gaza Now

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

Bahar: 22 years in the Life of a Compulsory Hijabi in Teheran

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 Art: A Lebanese Photographer and His Protégés

War and documentary photographer Maher Attar opens the Art District in Beirut to nurture other artists and beauty.

13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Nicole Hamouche

My Love for Derna: Interview with Libyan Writer Mahbuba Khalifa

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

Palestine’s Pen against Israel’s Swords of Injustice

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

Editors’ Palestinian Lit List

The editors of The Markaz Review recommended 20 of the best contemporary Palestinian novels, story collections and nonfiction.

06 NOVEMBER 2023 • By TMR

The Archaeology of War

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

What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love

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

In Praise of Khaled Khalifa—Friend, Artist, Humanist

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

I, SOUAD or the Six Deaths of a Refugee From Aleppo

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

The Mystery of Enayat al-Zayyat in Iman Mersal’s Tour de Force

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
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