@markaz-review.bsky.socialUmniya Najaer moves between missiles and minerals, geological time and imagined futures, transforming the page into a site of planetary and bodily encounter.
> Discover Umniya Najaer's poems: https://bit.ly/the-ossuary-of-evolving-forms-selected-poems
@markaz-review.bsky.socialMonira Al Qadiri, a self-described “dystopian artist”, creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.
> Read Nour Annan's piece: https://bit.ly/monira-al-qadiris-relics-of-the-future
#TMR61 #Anthropocene #SWANA #Art #DystopianArt #MoniraAlQadiri
@markaz-review.bsky.socialIn their latest unsettling work of speculative fiction, lisa minerva luxx asks: in a revolution that must never stop moving, what would make you turn back?
> Read the story now: https://bit.ly/the-long-middle-a-short-story
#TMR61 #Anthropocene #SWANA #Literature #SpeculativeFiction #ShortStory
@markaz-review.bsky.socialTMR presents a selection of bold, thought-provoking books about changing landscapes, environmental crisis, and new ways to survive and thrive.
> Check the full book list now: https://bit.ly/the-anthropocene-book-list
#TMR61 #TheMarkazReview #Anthropocene #SWANA #ArabLit #Literature #BookList
@markaz-review.bsky.socialLast month, we hosted an amazing roundtable with George Abraham, lisa minerva luxx, Cynthia Kreichati and TMR Literary Editor, Abdelrahman ElGendy.
Missed the conversation? You can now watch the full replay on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/YlLamm1pVjw?si=_B7XicmjMTvwC2Xp
@markaz-review.bsky.socialThree poems by poet George Abraham explore grief and displacement through the entanglements of family and empire, human and animal, body and language.
> Discover the poems now: https://bit.ly/poems-from-when-the-arab-apocalypse-comes-to-america
@markaz-review.bsky.socialNasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art’s possibilities in the face of loss.
> Read the full conversation between Dala Nasser and Samira Makki now: https://bit.ly/what-the-stones-remember-a-conversation-with-dala-nasser
@markaz-review.bsky.socialCynthia Kreichati tries to think through the unthinkable as she considers the mechanics of Israel’s AI-powered assault on Lebanon.
> Read the full essay now: https://bit.ly/hunter-trickster-gatherer
#TMR61 #TheMarkazReview #Anthropocene #SWANA #ArabLit #Literature #Lebanon #Hunter
@markaz-review.bsky.socialAn exhibition featuring Palestinian artists reimagining weeds highlights the problematic symbolism of resilience in times of genocide.
Read Silvia Hassouna's essay now: https://bit.ly/weeds-of-the-anthropocene-a-view-from-palestine
@markaz-review.bsky.socialHaunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, noam keim searches Morocco and France for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.
> Read the full essay now: https://bit.ly/the-last-barbary-lion
#TMR61 #Anthropocene #SWANA #ArabLit #Literature #Morocco #MoroccanLit
@markaz-review.bsky.socialSherena Razek looks to the land for another way of understanding the Anthropocene and finds in Palestine's elements an intifada of their own.
Read her latest essay now: https://bit.ly/elemental-intifada-how-palestine-unmakes-the-anthropocene
@markaz-review.bsky.socialIn our latest editorial, TMR’s Literary Editor, Abdelrahman ElGendy, reflects on what created the Anthropocene—capitalism, colonialism, ecocide—and the possibility of undoing it.
Read the full editorial now: https://bit.ly/why-anthropocene
@geogdurham.bsky.socialCritical approaches to the Anthropocene #TMR61 #TheMarkazReview #Anthropocene
In “Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine,” Silvia Hassouna traces the colonial histories embedded in the category of the “weed” by drawing on the 2020 exhibition Weed Control.
