The Markaz Review

06/18/2022

In our 22nd issue, STORIES, the filmmaker behind "Tell Spring Not to Come This Year" and "A Thousand Fires" journeys with Mohammad Bakri to find home.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/saeed-taji-farouky-strange-cities-are-familiar/

06/17/2022

Photos from Fadi Kattan's post

06/17/2022

The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and borders in our latest issue, STORIES.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/featured-artist-steve-sabella-beyond-palestine/

06/16/2022

In our latest issue, the author of the story collection "Love in a Blue Time" and the novels "Intimacy" and "The Last Word" weaves a dystopian tale of love and literature.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/hanif-kureishi-asha-and-haaji/

06/15/2022

Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine

Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine

The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and borders.

06/15/2022

Today, we published a special double fiction issue, TMR 22 • STORIES. Please read, enjoy and share, on us: https://themarkaz.org/review/

06/14/2022

New this week in TMR, Arie Akkersmans-Amaya reviews the latest film by Lebanese artist duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whom he interviews.

Read the film review: https://themarkaz.org/film-review-memory-box-on-lebanon-merges-art-cinema/

06/13/2022

This week in TMR, Hannah Fox reviews the Birmingham memoir by fashion artist Osman Yousefzada.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/book-review-the-go-between-by-osman-yousefzada/

06/07/2022

New this week in TMR: Oliver Gloag explores the conflicted Algerian and French identity of Albert Camus, reviewing his later novels, stories and statements.

Read the article: https://themarkaz.org/algeria-and-albert-camus/

06/06/2022

This week in TMR, Brahim El Guabli explores his Amazigh roots while championing the struggle of all indigenous peoples.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/my-amazighitude-on-the-indigenous-identity-of-north-africa/

06/04/2022

Jordan Elgrably talks to Palestinian filmmakers with Israeli citizenship to learn about identity and belonging in our latest issue: https://themarkaz.org/palestinian-filmmaker-israeli-passport/

06/03/2022

In our latest issue, Jenine Abboushi finds that only as Israeli citizens can Palestinians "min el-dakhil" fight for equal rights.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/we-palestinian-israelis/

06/02/2022

Palestinian Rapper Tamer Nafar Goes the Distance: An Interview

Sheren Falah Saab talks to rapper-activist Tamer Nafar, who calls for joint Palestinian and Israeli "co-resistance" to the status quo.

Read more from our latest issue: https://themarkaz.org/palestinian-rapper-tamer-nafar-goes-the-distance-an-interview/

Sheren Falah Saab talks to rapper-activist Tamer Nafar, who calls for joint Palestinian and Israeli "co-resistance" to the status quo.

06/02/2022

khulud khamis [sic], a Slovak-Palestinian writer living in Haifa, shares an excerpt from her novel in which Maisoon and Christina go on a journey in our latest issue.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/palestinian-and-israeli-excerpt-from-haifa-fragments/

05/31/2022

This week in TMR, Mark Habeeb proposes a sensible approach to studying the problem of the lack of peace in Israel-Palestine.

Read the full article: https://themarkaz.org/israel-and-palestine-focus-on-the-problem-not-the-solution/

05/30/2022

New this week in TMR, Maysoon Pachachi’s film reflects her "long-standing commitment to highlight experiences of ordinary Iraqis, especially women."

Read the review: https://themarkaz.org/film-review-maysoon-pachachis-our-river-our-sky-in-iraq/

05/29/2022

For our 21st monthly issue, TMR features the work of an artist who is continually working out what it means to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel.

See more: https://themarkaz.org/fouad-agbaria-featured-artist/

05/28/2022

In our latest issue, Brett Kline reviews the new book by Maurice Ebileeni surveying Palestinian literature from and beyond the homeland.

Read the review: https://themarkaz.org/being-there-being-here-palestinian-writings-in-the-world/

05/27/2022

In our latest issue, Mischa Geracoulis reviews the story of Silwan, in East Jerusalem, through the eyes of its youth, as told by an American teacher who visits for seven years.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/in-east-jerusalem-palestinian-youth-struggle-for-freedom/

05/26/2022

This week in TMR, Rosa Maria Branche welcomes Rima Abdul Malak as Macron's choice for the new Minister of Culture.

Read the article: https://themarkaz.org/frances-new-culture-minister-meets-with-racist-taunts/

05/25/2022

New this week in TMR: İlker Hepkaner reviews a web documentary on the fascinating trajectory of Turkey's late icon, Zeki Müren.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/2022-webby-award-winner-documents-queer-turkish-icon/

05/24/2022

Hadani Ditmars, fresh from a return trip to Iraq, surveys the burgeoning plastic arts scene this week in TMR.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/baghdad-art-scene-springs-to-life-as-iraq-seeks-renewal/

05/23/2022

This week in TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the Arab-Belgian singer-songwriter Tamino-Amir, as he prepares to go on tour.

See more: https://themarkaz.org/tamino-soothing-sonic-innovator-goes-on-post-pandemic-tour/

05/23/2022

Read this week's new stories by Melissa Chemam Hadani Ditmars Ilker Hepkaner & Rosa Maria Branche:
https://themarkaz.org/tmr-weekly/

05/23/2022

Haifa-based poet Asmaa Azaizeh explores personal themes of family, language and memory in our latest issue.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/three-poems-from-asmaa-azaizeh/

05/21/2022

In our latest issue, Anton Shammas — the Palestinian novelist who wrote the Hebrew-language "Arabeques" — attempts to sort himself.

Read the article: https://themarkaz.org/can-the-bilingual-speak-thoughts-on-the-arabic-hebrew-mind/

05/21/2022

See Sheren Falah Saab's interview with Tamer Nafar in our current PALESTINIAN ISRAELI? issue.

05/20/2022

TMR's chief editor reveals the behind-the-screens reality of naming the May 2022 issue, when "Palestinian Israeli" is a contested identity.

Read more: https://themarkaz.org/from-the-editor-on-being-palestinian-in-israel/

05/19/2022

"Join us in two weeks for a lively online discussion about Joumana Haddad’s new novel "The Book of Queens" from Interlink Books, with the author joining in the second half of the hour. Moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure.

Register now: https://themarkaz.org/event/joumana-haddads-the-book-of-queens-with-radical-books-tmr/"

05/18/2022

We, Palestinian Israelis

WE PALESTINIAN ISRAELIS
Jenine Abboushi finds that only as Israeli citizens can Palestinians "min el-dakhil" fight for equal rights.

Jenine Abboushi finds that only as Israeli citizens can Palestinians "min el-dakhil" fight for equal rights.

05/18/2022

This week in TMR, Nora Lester Murad reviews a "far-fetched" story of a marriage between a Palestinian Muslim and an American Jew.

Read the full article: https://themarkaz.org/fragmented-love-in-alison-glicks-the-other-end-of-the-sea/

05/18/2022

New this week, I. Rida Mahmood remembers the story of a home abortion in Amman and thanks her lucky stars she lives in Amreeka.

Read the full article: https://themarkaz.org/theocracy-looms-in-anti-abortion-opinions-of-the-supreme-court/

05/18/2022

New this week in TMR: Farah Abdessamad is fascinated by a climate change documentary about would-be rainmakers in the UAE.

Read the full review: https://themarkaz.org/film-review-how-to-kill-a-cloud-brings-rain-to-the-uae/