@markaz-review.bsky.socialAmal Ghandour examines a historical record marked by missteps and false victories in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
> Discover Amal Ghandour’s latest review: https://bit.ly/the-victory-sign-between-bravado-and-brute-fact
@markaz-review.bsky.socialAuthor Karim Kattan weaves Palestinian folklore, mythology, and queer desire into a powerful reimagining of love and liberation.
> Read Gaar Adams’ latest review: https://bit.ly/the-possibility-of-paradise-in-eden-at-dawn
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialYoussef Rakha's novel asks big existential questions like “What should contemporary Islam look like?” but offers no easy answers.
> Discover Nour Eldin H’s latest review: https://bit.ly/postmuslim-in-search-of-a-muslim-modernity
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialLara Sheehi talks about reclaiming the psyche as a site of struggle in her new book, “From the Clinic to the Streets.”
> Discover Lara Sheehi in conversation with Sarah Aziza: bit.ly/psychic-militancy-a-conversation-with-lara-sheehi
@markaz-review.bsky.social“We Call Her Emma” is a compelling introduction to a fascinating figure, but neither quite biography nor moral reckoning
> Read Anas Tareef’s latest review: https://bit.ly/emmas-wickedness-a-review-of-we-call-her-emma
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialLara Sheehi talks about reclaiming the psyche as a site of struggle in her new book, “From the Clinic to the Streets.”
> Discover Lara Sheehi in conversation with Sarah Aziza: bit.ly/psychic-militancy-and-revolutionary-futures-a-conversation-with-lara-sheehi
@markaz-review.bsky.social“Exhibit G”, a new poetry collection, by Fady Joudah turns the archive from a repository of Palestinian loss into a site of intimacy, memory, and unfinished futures.
> Discover Issam Zineh’s review: bit.ly/the-infrastructure-of-truth-a-conversation-with-assal-rad
@markaz-review.bsky.socialJiyar Jahan Fard's debut novel, "The Shadeless Border" (translated by Chiya Parvizpur), centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.
> Read Matt Broomfield’s review: bit.ly/the-shadeless-border-gives-voice-to-kurdish-borderlands
@markaz-review.bsky.socialHistorian Assal Rad talks about the impetus and intended impact behind her new book, Don’t Say Palestine.
> Discover Assal Rad in conversation with Lina Mounzer: bit.ly/the-infrastructure-of-truth-a-conversation-with-assal-rad
@markaz-review.bsky.socialThere is little respite in the modern-day bloodletting that encompasses the globe, and yet we must fight on.
> Read Amal Ghandour’s latest “This Arab Life” column: bit.ly/interesting-times-we-are-well-beyond-them-now
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialIn this short story, a man returns to his hometown and must negotiate his relationship with faith, community, and a woman from his past.
> Discover Barâa Arar’s latest story: bit.ly/the-dentists-son-a-short-story
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialPalestinian novelist and poet Karim Kattan reflects on the problems, pleasures, and peculiarities of writing fiction today.
> Seven Questions with Karim Kattan by Saleem Haddad: bit.ly/seven-questions-with-karim-kattan
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialShahab Eddin Pakbeen answered a couple of questions about his latest short story, “Please Wait.”
> Read Shahab Eddin Pakbeen's latest piece: https://bit.ly/please-wait-a-short-story
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialAs part of The Fiction Desk, TMR Fiction Editor Saleem Haddad interviews Barâa Arar about her latest short story, "The Dentist's Son."
> Discover Barâa Arar’s interview: bit.ly/the-dentists-son-a-short-story
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialFor the first edition of The Fiction Desk, Barâa Arar offers us a reading of her latest short story, “The Dentist’s Son.”
> Discover Barâa Arar’s latest story: bit.ly/the-dentists-son-a-short-story
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialOld tensions with a contemporary ring continue to illuminate Israel’s profound crisis as it approaches its seventy-ninth birthday.
> Discover Amal Ghandour’s latest column now: bit.ly/better-baruch-spinoza-than-meir-kahane
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@markaz-review.bsky.socialThe countless unanswered questions about what exactly happened on September 11, 2001 remain the greatest evidence of its instrumentalization.
> Read Ammiel Alcalay's latest piece: bit.ly/failures-of-the-imagination-twenty-five-years-after-9-11
