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📰 [TMR WEEKLY]Latest articles in TMR Weekly:• In “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Break—Cutting Through Rocks’ Sara Shahverdi,” A...
11/28/2025

📰 [TMR WEEKLY]

Latest articles in TMR Weekly:

• In “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Break—Cutting Through Rocks’ Sara Shahverdi,” Alex Demyanenko explores how a new documentary captures one woman’s endurance, art, and resistance in the face of political repression.
https://bit.ly/the-woman-who-wouldnt-break-cutting-through-rocks-sara-shahverdi

• In “Artist Interview: Corinne Silva on Israeli Settlement Gardens in Palestine,” Jelena Sofronijevic speaks with Silva about photographing settler gardens, blurred borders, and how landscapes become instruments of control and erasure.
https://bit.ly/artist-interview-corinne-silva-on-israeli-settlement-gardens-in-palestine

• In “Terms of Servitude and the Threats of Digital Settler Colonialism,” Maura Finkelstein reviews a timely new book that unpacks how platforms, data extraction, and surveillance extend colonial logics into digital life.
https://bit.ly/terms-of-servitude-and-the-threats-of-digital-settler-colonialism

The world feels more noir than fiction lately—sharp, neon, shadowed.In our December issue, The Markaz Review steps into ...
11/28/2025

The world feels more noir than fiction lately—sharp, neon, shadowed.

In our December issue, The Markaz Review steps into this glowing darkness: where war, extremism, and chaos unfold in real time, and every headline lands like a plot twist. What does it mean to live inside a luminous noir we all scroll through?

👉 TMR 56 • NOIR releases on December 5th - stay tuned.

🗣️ Share this post if you feel the paradox. Comment with one word that describes your mood lately.

11/27/2025

💌 [DEAR SOUSEH]

TMR Senior Editor Lina Mounzer introduces “Dear Souseh,” an existential advice column for third world problems—where love, grief, jealousy, genocide, politics, and family all collide. One person writes in, one person writes back, and the rest of us get to listen, learn, and feel a little less alone.

Got a question for Souseh? Write to [email protected] and it may appear (anonymously) in a future column.

🎨 [TMR 55 NATIONALITY]In this month’s interview, El Mehdi Largo shares his journey as a Moroccan artist in an interview ...
11/25/2025

🎨 [TMR 55 NATIONALITY]

In this month’s interview, El Mehdi Largo shares his journey as a Moroccan artist in an interview with Naima Morelli—becoming Italian, then Arab—while using art to playfully challenge orientalist clichés. Discover how his work reveals the humanity and sacredness in our differences, and the freedom found in crossing borders.

🔗 Read the full feature: https://bit.ly/we-the-wanderers-featured-artist-el-mehdi-largo

عن ممثل ارتجالي كوميدي، يؤدي في لندن تحت تأثير الحشيش، يكتب محمد النعاس قصة قصيرة رائعة عن جروح الماضي.يمكنكم قراءة القص...
11/23/2025

عن ممثل ارتجالي كوميدي، يؤدي في لندن تحت تأثير الحشيش، يكتب محمد النعاس قصة قصيرة رائعة عن جروح الماضي.

يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:

https://themarkaz.org/goldendove/

For years, The Markaz Review has been a literary home for SWANA writers and artists. Omar El Akkad calls our work “vital...
11/23/2025

For years, The Markaz Review has been a literary home for SWANA writers and artists. Omar El Akkad calls our work “vital”—for its care and moral compass in amplifying nuanced voices from the Arab world and beyond.

🌍 Help us keep independent SWANA literature alive.

❤️ Donating supports bold writing, translation, and new voices. Every member makes a difference. Donate today: https://bit.ly/donatetmr

11/23/2025

📚 [TMR BOOK CLUB]

Host Rana Asfour invites you to our final Book Club of 2025 featuring “Whispering Walls” by Choman Hardi—set in the UK and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Journey alongside three siblings during the weeks before the 2003 Iraq war, and join our online discussion to explore memory, identity, war, and the meaning of home with the author.

🗓️ Sunday, November 30th at 1pm EST on Zoom
🔗 Sign up to participate in the discussion: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/iBwOyUOeQ46Hw6BNiyG-IA

📰 [TMR WEEKLY]Latest articles in TMR Weekly:• Claudia Mende explores the legacy of “Fatima Mernissi—The Unforgotten Sult...
11/21/2025

📰 [TMR WEEKLY]

Latest articles in TMR Weekly:

• Claudia Mende explores the legacy of “Fatima Mernissi—The Unforgotten Sultana.”
https://bit.ly/fatima-mernissi-the-unforgotten-sultana

• Amal Ghandour’s biweekly column “In Lebanon, It’s Business as Usual” examines everyday resilience amid turmoil.
https://bit.ly/in-lebanon-its-business-as-usual

• Lina Mounzer's monthly advice column “Dear Souseh: Bummed-Out Bestie” tackles the heartbreak and confusion of when friendships diverge.
https://bit.ly/dear-souseh-bummed-out-bestie

• Matt Broomfield reviews “Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora,” by Holly Mason Badra (pub. University of Arkansas Press, 2025), tracing new voices across borders.
https://bit.ly/contemporary-kurdish-writers-in-the-diaspora

• A***n Omar Hassan reviews Agri Ismaïl’s “Hyper” (pub. Coffee House Press, 2026), a novel defined by Kurdish identity that captures how modern cities transform immigrants into economic vectors.
https://bit.ly/agri-ismails-hyper-is-a-21st-century-kurdish-crucible

• Nat Muller covers Istanbul’s 18th Biennale with “The Three-Legged Cat” and its creative disruptions.
https://bit.ly/the-three-legged-cat-istanbuls-18th-biennale

• Öykü Tekten features İlhan Sami Çomak’s poems and an interview, supporting PEN International’s campaign for the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, running until December 10.
https://bit.ly/ilhan-sami-comak-3-poems-and-an-interview

🔗 Dive into these features at the link in bio.

🌎 [WORLD PICKS]Did you catch this month's World Picks? November brought vibrant festivals, art exhibitions, and intervie...
11/20/2025

🌎 [WORLD PICKS]

Did you catch this month's World Picks? November brought vibrant festivals, art exhibitions, and interviews highlighting Arab poetry, jazz, q***r culture, comics, and more from London, Berlin, and DC.

🔗 Dive in here: https://bit.ly/november-world-picks-from-the-editors-2

11/20/2025

🗓️ [SAVE THE DATE]

Rejoignez Le Book Club le dimanche 7 novembre a 18h00 pour discuter de « Badjens » avec l’autrice Delphine Minoui, un roman puissant sur la liberté et la révolte. Animé par Lara Vergnaud.

🔗 Inscrivez-vous ici : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YB8vu3acTk68uW16Iid60Q
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Join Le Book Club on Sunday, November 7 at 6:00 p.m. to discuss “Badjens” with author Delphine Minoui, a powerful novel about freedom and rebellion. Hosted by Lara Vergnaud.

🔗 Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YB8vu3acTk68uW16Iid60Q

[TMR 55 NATIONALITY] In the editorial, Editor in Chief Jordan Elgrably and Malu Halasa reflect on identity, borders, and...
11/19/2025

[TMR 55 NATIONALITY]

In the editorial, Editor in Chief Jordan Elgrably and Malu Halasa reflect on identity, borders, and statelessness, exploring why nationality remains a vital and complex issue in our fractured world.

🔗 Read the full editorial: https://bit.ly/why-nationality

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