The Markaz Review presents Libya's Mohammed al-Naas in these exclusive excerpts translated by Rana Asfour.
18 JULY 2022 • By Mohammed Alnaas, Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews Mai Al-Nakib's debut novel, in which the protagonist always thought she would leave her country.
27 JUNE 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews Libyan-American author Hisham Matar's memoir of his time in Siena, Italy.
25 APRIL 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Laila Halaby on the new novel from Lebanon's multilingual feminist poet and powerhouse.
18 APRIL 2022 • By Laila Halaby
Author and Darija translator Deborah Kapchan recalls her friendship with two of Morocco's greatest contemporary poets.
11 APRIL 2022 • By Deborah Kapchan
Rana Asfour reviews the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Nadifa Mohamed based on the true story of a wrongly-convicted Somali in 1950s Cardiff.
07 MARCH 2022 • By Rana Asfour
In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh, readers get a sense of Fadi Zaghmout's prose and purpose.
14 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Fadi Zaghmout, Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.
10 JANUARY 2022 • By Rana Asfour
A family tragedy (we all have them), powerful forms of devotion and love, and a common political approach to “defeated peoples” in the world—all revisited over a weekend in Munich.
27 DECEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Jenine Abboushi inaugurates a new monthly column with a story about a prominent family that lost everything in Palestine.
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Asfour
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders see her country.
29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
