Forbidden or taboo love? In a world where we live free, how could such stymied conventions continue to exist?
24 OCTOBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
In Egypt where nationalist anthems are weaponized and satire becomes grounds for persecution, Taraddud stands as an act of survival.
17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Salma Harland
Bombed streets and Palestinian suffering contrast with Orwell’s language, showing how terms like “security operations” sanitize violence.
17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko
Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.
17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty
In the Global South, abstraction connects with modernism and evades censorship. Could it be a powerful way to explore deep time and memory?
10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
An artist is unable to go on with life and work as usual, while Israelis are committed to a campaign of murder and mayhem against Palestinians.
10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Two years into the crushing genocide in Gaza, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi recalls her displacements and the significance of writing for her people.
10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Amal Ghandour helps parse these Orwellian times from the perspective of an Arab writer living between Beirut, Amman and the west.
10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
Markaz Review editors share news of upcoming talks, film screenings, exhibitions, books, art and more.
03 OCTOBER 2025 • By TMR
Winner of the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize — A foreign correspondent confronts devastation and violence before crossing a line of no return.
26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Hussain A. Ayoub
A woman living in the capital of the United States during fascism and genocide nonetheless yearns for a progressive partner.
26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
“Diba’s House” is a fictional retelling of events in Wadi Salib in Palestine and won Second Place in the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize.
26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Sara Masry
