From Beirut to Gaza, revolution to memory, The Markaz Review has spent the last 5 years publishing SWANA writers and artists. We believe that freedom of expression is a fundamental right.
📖 Get your copy now: bit.ly/the-best-of-...
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15.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white image of Beirut
preview of essay with black and white image of Beirut
An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in the stories of Palestinian writer Nejmeh Khalil Habib @interlinkbooks.bsky.social rgould.substack.com/p/an-intimat...
22.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship.
3 Dec. 2025 4pm GMT New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship. Online @ics.bsky.social ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @palaeofuturist.bsky.social
20.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“This, Ngũgĩ’s posthumous publication, serves as a persistent exploration of his uncompromising perspectives on language and its significance in society.” – Dike Okoro
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
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Free Sudan Gazette
Free Sudan Gazette is an independent, open-source digital media platform providing news, research, investigations, and documentation of political, social, and cultural events about Sudanese people …
a year ago, a group of us got together to envision what a pple focus Sudanese
paper would look like. today that vision is released into the world. introducing The Free Sudan Gazette- an independent, open-source platform documenting Sudan’s struggle for liberation:
www.freesudangazette.com
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Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips
Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
medium.com/global-liter...
14.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How a Lexicographer Changed Iranian Politics
Introducing a collection of revolutionary satire from Iran
Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould on Iranian writer & lexicographer Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
medium.com/global-liter...
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We're speaking for Medium Day about Empowering Palestinian Voices Through Mentorship (1:30 GMT/ 8:30AM ET). Join us by registering here:
events.zoom.us/ev/Av7REBItl...
19.09.2025 12:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PALESTINE IS EVERYWHERE features Lujayn, a fifteen-year-old writer in Gaza whom we have published extensively in Global Literary Theory. It will be her debut in book form. Her earlier stories are featured here:
rrgould.medium.com/list/the-lig...
13.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Tribute to Anas Al-Sharif
Honouring the martyred voice of Gaza, who fearlessly exposed injustice and carried the truth to the world.
Alaa Albana, one of our participants, has shared a short poem honoring the martyred Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif medium.com/global-liter...
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Honored to have poet Alice Oswald among our mentors!
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May My Children Never Sleep Hungry
Testimonies from a Mother in Gaza
Honored to publish Gaza-based teacher and translator Munira el Najar's @muniraelnajar.bsky.social 's reflections on being a mother in a time on genocide. Please read her work and support and share her campaign (her family depends on it): www.gofundme.com/f/renewing-h...
medium.com/global-liter...
06.08.2025 07:53 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Funded by the SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund, the Palestinian Writers’ Workshop provides online workshops to young writers in Palestine in collaboration with The Hands Up Project. In a blog on Medium, volunteer Rim Aoude reflects on the experience.
Thank you @soaspress.bsky.social for featuring our latest mentor report! Read it here:
medium.com/global-liter...
28.07.2025 23:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This initiative is more than just writing — it’s about mentorship, solidarity, and the transformative power of storytelling.
Stay tuned for updates and sneak peeks from this inspiring collaboration!
27.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
12 gifted young Palestinian writers — from Gaza, the West Bank, and the displaced community in Egypt — are being mentored by leading poets and authors in the UK. Together, they’ll co-create a powerful new book that shares their stories, voices, and visions with the world. 🌍✍️🇵🇸
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We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with SOAS University of London and the Global Literary Theory project
12 gifted young Palestinian writers — from Gaza, the West Bank, and the displaced community in Egypt — are being mentored by leading poets and authors in the UK. Together, they’ll co-create a powerful new book that shares their stories, voices, and visions with the world. 🌍✍️🇵🇸
This initiative is more than just writing — it’s about mentorship, solidarity, and the transformative power of storytelling.
Stay tuned for updates and sneak peeks from this inspiring collaboration!
We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with SOAS University of London and the Global Literary Theory project
12 gifted young Palestinian writers — from Gaza, the West Bank, and the displaced community in Egypt — are being mentored by leading poets and authors in the UK. Together, they’ll co-create a powerful new book that shares their stories, voices, and visions with the world. 🌍✍️🇵🇸
This initiative is more than just writing — it’s about mentorship, solidarity, and the transformative power of storytelling.
Stay tuned for updates and sneak peeks from this inspiring collaboration!
News from our partners at The Hands up Project!
We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with @soasuni.bsky.social and the Global Literary Theory project @balaghas.bsky.social.
27.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Just ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize! Open to early-career researchers (including PhD students) in the field of international contemporary literature (literature published since 1965 from anywhere in the world).
⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025
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31.05.2025 09:33 — 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Our co-edited @britishacademy.bsky.social volume, Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, is now available online. Order for your libraries or get in touch if you’d like to write a review!
https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/60334
03.06.2025 17:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Zağar Mehmet Went to Prison
A translation of Sabahattin Ali’s classic short story “The Canal”
One of my favorite Sabahattin Ali stories, “The Canal,” is now on GLT ==> medium.com/global-liter...
#SabahattinAli #literarytranslation #turkishliterature
02.06.2025 21:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Back pain? Arrow wound?
Read about medieval amulets in our Document of the Month by Sarah Kiyanrad of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Check it out: bit.ly/versatileamulet
#documents deciphered by the IE team from the @khalilicollections.org
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorian #weekendreading
16.05.2025 17:23 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Publications — TAKHAYYUL تخیل
Admittedly, we have been working quite hard for over four years. We thought you may want to see all of our publications piled up together
www.takhayyulproject.com/publications
@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social
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Please read our latest : an extraordinary personal narrative “Famine, Fear and the Fight for Bread” by Palestinian writer Samah Zaqout, based in Gaza https://medium.com/global-literary-theory/famine-fear-and-the-fight-for-bread-8603ae01e612?sk=7158f15d5a6f89a70ad2a0714d5eec8d
10.05.2025 00:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We have reached 1000 followers! Thanks to all our readers and contributors!
Reach out via DM if you have something to share on world literature and poetics (reprints / republished work is welcome).
27.04.2025 20:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Turkish Tale of a Drowned Man
Introducing Sabahattin Ali’s story “Hasan Drowned”
Aysel K. Basci @basciaysel.bsky.social
introduces and translates an excerpt from Sabahattin Ali's "A Turkish Tale of a Drowned Man"
medium.com/global-liter...
27.04.2025 20:03 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
reads. writes. reviews. translates
Managing Editor @ themarkaz.org
Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Queer, mixed-race, trans nonbinary creative. Editor of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social and Community-Centric Fundraising. Membership Program Lead of Next 100 Colorado. Board member of Summit for Action. But all my posts are my own.
Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social
bio.site/globalmajoritypress
A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
Official account for the Institute for Iranian Studies (Iranistik) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com
Defending readers and writers. A partner of PEN International.
activist scholar in a committed relationship w/ collective liberation. working towards a world where all worlds fit
@fromtheperiphery.com
@mutualaidpod.bsky.social
@thefirethesetimes.com
gaza mutualaid: https://chuffed.org/project/allchildrenareourchildren
Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
“Most Insufferable Man in Publishing.” Loves baseball, hates most pitchers. Sucks at email. Is usually editing or writing for Substack or podcasting.
Promoting growth & healing through language, symbol, and story. #poetry #expressivearts
Learn more about us at https://poetrytherapy.org/
We also publish the Journal of Poetry Therapy quarterly —> https://poetrytherapy.org/Journal-of-Poetry-Therapy
PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship.
Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
Literary translator, from Italian to English. Member of ALTA, ATA, NCTA, PEN, Authors Guild. San Francisco Bay Area. https://amilanoappel.com/
A literary studies journal focusing on the theory and history of the novel. Published by Duke University Press. All submissions to novel_forum@brown.edu
Editor - New Nottingham Journal
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24
A luminous space for listening
Each month: one poet, one moment
Hosted by Kyeren Regehr
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria
www.kyerenregehr.ca/poetlaureatepodcast
Recorded at Haus of Owl on lək̓ʷəŋən homelands (Victoria BC)
Writes. Edits. Curates. Interested in language, ecological narratives, etc.
"Home Is a Heart That Flees" chapbook by African Poetry Book Fund. Poems and stories in Poetry Wales, Transition, OlongoAfrica, etc.
