The Markaz Review

04/09/2025

04/09/2025

🗄️ [FROM THE ARCHIVES]

Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have faced waves of intimidation, detention, and violence. In “Arrested and Rearrested,” Lynzy Billing bears witness to the stories of women imprisoned and re-imprisoned—with their voices challenging silence and injustice.

🔗 Revisit the article: bit.ly/arrested-and-rearrested-palestinian-women-in-the-west-bank

02/09/2025

تعيش بقلق دائم متعلق بعينها المفقودة، في موعد غرامي تطلق كبسولات خيالية على كل الحاضرين، قصة قصيرة مميزة لآلاء عبد الوهاب.

يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://bit.ly/thatfareye

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تعيش بقلق دائم متعلق بعينها المفقودة، في موعد غرامي تطلق كبسولات خيالية على كل الحاضرين، قصة قصيرة مميزة لآلاء عبد الوهاب.

01/09/2025

"At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army,
there will soon be no one left to keep you informed."



Project Censored Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders / RSF

01/09/2025

01/09/2025

The Markaz Review deplores Israel's deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian media workers, that's why we're joining RSF and Avaaz with a blacked out site through September 1st.

31/08/2025

🗄️ [FROM THE ARCHIVES]

How do you love someone whose truth feels worlds apart from your own? In “Dear Souseh: I Can’t Follow a Loved One Down the Rabbit Hole,” Souseh tackles the heartbreak and hope of seeing a loved one slip into conspiracy—and asks what it means to meet each other in the gray area.

🔗 Revisit this moving advice column: bit.ly/dear-souseh-i-cant-follow-a-loved-one-down-the-rabbit-hole

29/08/2025

بعد عشرين سنة في السجن، يخرج مسجون سياسي ليكتشف أن العالم قد تغير تمامًا، كل الأحلام تحققت، كل شيء يبدو مكتملًا، لكن هل هو كذلك بالفعل؟ قصة قصيرة مميزة لمروان عبد السلام.

يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://bit.ly/godspuppet

#المركز _بالعربي

بعد عشرين سنة في السجن، يخرج مسجون سياسي ليكتشف أن العالم قد تغير تمامًا، كل الأحلام تحققت، كل شيء يبدو مكتملًا، لكن هل هو كذلك بالفعل؟ قصة قصيرة مميزة لمروان عبد ال....

29/08/2025

📰 [TMR WEEKLY]

This week, two powerful perspectives from The Markaz Review:

In "Once Upon a Time in Gaza Wants to Be an Indie Western," Karim Goury explores survival and spectacle in a land familiar with exile—an unexpected dive into genre culture from Gaza.
🔗 https://bit.ly/once-upon-a-time-in-gaza-wants-to-be-an-indie-western

"Palestinian Cartographies—a review of Mapping My Return" by Mai Al-Nakib traces memory, mapping, and the ongoing story of Palestinian identity through literature’s lens.
🔗 https://bit.ly/palestinian-cartographies-a-review-of-mapping-my-return

29/08/2025

🌎 [TMR WORLD PICKS]

Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, concerts, and several new recommended books for September to add to your reading list—see what our editors are discovering around the world.

🔗 https://bit.ly/september-world-picks-from-the-editors-2

28/08/2025

"Social media is the noise and the lifeline."

You’re comparing.
You’re scrolling.
You’re smiling at strangers while crying in silence.

We know.

In OUT OF OUR MINDS, we pull back the curtain on how the digital world fractures and connects us.

The dopamine highs. The spiraling lows. The curated masks.

Mental health in the age of algorithms—explored through essays, fiction, and art.

Issue 53 of The Markaz Review drops September 5th.

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