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🍉 Stories from the SWANA region & Arab diaspora 🗣️ Freedom | Identity | Resistance | Expression 📚 Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Podcasts 🔗 New issue ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/themarkazreview
Meet Saleem Haddad, our new fiction editor and author of Guapa (2016) and floodlines (2026), a multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war.
#TheMarkazReview #TMRteam #SaleemHaddad #SWANALit
TMR 58 — MOTHER TONGUE has been live since Friday.
This issue explores the languages that raise us, haunt us, and won't quite let us go. At The Markaz Review, we're translators by trade and by survival: always moving between tongues, cities, and selves.
🔗 https://bit.ly/tmr58-mother-tongue
📚 [TMR BOOK CLUB]
For our third book club of 2026, hosted by Rana Asfour we’re reading The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother) by Rabih Alameddine.
🗓️ Join us Sunday, March 29th at 1pm EST/19:00 CET online.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HDnI4bLdTsituYwSSN-hFA#/
من غزة تكتب دعاء سعيد ملقية الضوء على ما نعرفه، وتتأمل ما حدث وتأثيره على أهل غزة، ما يدفعنا لتأمل تأثير حرب الإبادة علينا أيضًا.
يمكنكم قراءة المقال كاملًا من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/aslaazaman/
#المركز_بالعربي #أشلاء_زمن #دعاء_سعيد #مقال
TMR 58 • Mother Tongue is live!
How could we not be intrigued, if not obsessed, by the amorphous notion that is a mother tongue?
https://bit.ly/tmr58-mother-tongue
In his latest review, Jordan Elgrably focuses on Palestinian American writer-director Cherien Dabis’s third feature film.
🔗 Read now: https://bit.ly/setting-history-right-in-all-thats-left-of-you
In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, Armenian-American poet Shahé Mankerian’s new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
🔗 Explore the full poem now: https://bit.ly/how-to-erase-an-armenian-accent-in-junior-high-a-poem
#TheMarkazReview #MotherTongue #TMRPoetry
For our third book club of 2026, we’re reading The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother) by Rabih Alameddine.
🗓️ Join us Sunday, March 29th at 1pm EST/19:00 CET online.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HDnI4bLdTsituYwSSN-hFA#/registration
#TMRBookClub #Rabih Alameddine
تكتب هبة حافظ عن مقهى ستراند، وتحكي عن لحظات مؤثرة اختبرتها فيه، ويبقى سؤالها الأخير بلا إجابة.
يمكنكم قراءة المقال كاملًا من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/firithaa/
#المركز_بالعربي #في_رثاء_المقهى
Behind the scenes with Managing Editor Lara Vergnaud: Why #MotherTongue is our first bimonthly issue theme.
Mother Tongue goes live in a week, on March 6th.
Freshta Jalalzai reflects on meeting a poet with whom she shares the grief of exile and the loss of home, Shahé Mankerian’s poem dives into the painful self-silencing of language and identity. Amal Ghandour asks: who owns a life once we—or they—are gone? 🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
Many women and men long to raise children of their own, but is it primordial to be a biological parent? Lina Mounzer reads from a recent column, exploring the complexity of being a childless mother in a blended family.
🔗 https://bit.ly/souseh-sometimes-i-feel-like-a-childless-mother
The Markaz Review exists because SWANA stories deserve to be told with care, complexity, and courage. If independent literature matters to you, consider helping us. Bold writing, new voices, and nuanced storytelling, that's what your donation makes possible.
🔗 https://bit.ly/donatetmr
📰 [TMR EDITORIAL TEAM]
Meet Abdelrahman ElGendy, our new literary editor and author of forthcoming Huna (Penguin Random House, Sept 2026), exploring dissent and erasure in post-revolution Egypt.
#TheMarkazReview #TMRteam #AbdelrahmanElGendy #SWANALit
تتلخص رواية محمد الفولي الجديدة في كراهية النمل، يحدثنا الراوي المخادع عن أسباب كراهيته لتلك الكائنات الصغيرة، ولا يخف هوسه بمحاولة عقابها وقتلها مع كل فصل من فصول الرواية.
يمكنكم قراءة المقتطف كاملًا من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/waytolillants/
📝 [THIS ARAB LIFE]
In “On Legal Victories and Human Healing” Amal Ghandour questions what role does justice — as distinct from law — play in a world where the main and clear culprits appear to yet again roam free?
🔗 https://bit.ly/on-legal-victories-and-human-healing
📰 [TMR WEEKLY]: Layla AlAmmar on Arab melancholy in Saleem Haddad’s Floodlines. Lina Mounzer on childless motherhood in blended families. Zein Murib reviews Saqi’s LGBTQ+ Arab anthology.
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
🗓️ Rejoignez-nous pour la deuxième rencontre signée LE BOOK CLUB ! Nous discuterons du roman “Les déterrées” de Katia Belkhodja, le dimanche 15 mars à 18h CET / 12pm EST.
🎟️ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gnMApVTkT3yc4XmZ6LRmYw
For years, The Markaz Review has uplifted SWANA voices. In the words of Madj Aburrad, “Freedom of expression matters because it's rare where I'm from.”
❤️ Support bold writing, translation, and new voices. Donate today: https://bit.ly/donatetmr
#TheMarkazReview #Donate #SWANA
📖 TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE drops on March 6th. Here at The Markaz Review, we are endlessly fascinated by the myriad paths language can take, and notably how different languages intersect, collide, clash, or merge.
#MotherTongue #LanguageAndIdentity #LifeInTranslation #DiasporaLit #LiteraryMagazine
📝 [THIS ARAB LIFE]
In “Trump, The Liberator! (and the Fear Wagons),” Amal Ghandour dissects the mythology around Donald Trump’s second presidency, following the caravans of fear and resentment hitched to his so‑called liberation. 🔗 https://bit.ly/trump-the-liberator-and-the-fear-wagons
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE
In this poignant essay, Jim Quilty reflects on With Hasan in Gaza: Salvaged Palestine, a work that salvages stories of resilience amid devastation.
🔗 Read it now: https://bit.ly/with-hasan-in-gaza-salvaged-palestine
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE
Sholeh Wolpé presents You Must Live (Copper Canyon Press) a poignant anthology of Palestinian poetry that channels endurance, loss, and unyielding spirit.
🔗 https://bit.ly/you-must-live-a-collection-of-palestinian-poetry
#TMR57Palestine #PalestinianPoetry
📚 Rana Asfour is joined by Layla AlAmmar as guest moderator to discussThe Book of Disappearance (Syracuse University Press) by Ibtisam Azem, who will be in attendance!
🗓️ Sunday, February 22nd at 1pm EST online.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TwDstEMbS3CHzjtT7KFGrA#/registration
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE: Sheryl Ono traces the roots of Jewish supremacy and its devastating culmination in Israel's actions in Gaza.
🔗 https://bit.ly/ewish-supremacy-and-the-making-of-genocide-in-gaza
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine #Gaza #Palestine #SWANA #WorldLit
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE: Gabriel Polley reviews two new books of Palestinian writing that bear unflinching witness to life under occupation. 🔗 Read it now: https://bit.ly/in-two-new-books-palestinian-writing-bears-witness
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine #PalestinianLiterature
🍉 In TMR 57 • PALESTINE, Rebecca Ruth Gould provided an exclusive interview of award-winning Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons.
🔗 https://bit.ly/prison-and-the-writer-interview-with-palestinian-nasser-abu-srour
#TMR57Palestine #Palestine
📰 [TMR WEEKLY]: Rebecca Ruth Gould on the histories shaping October 7 and its aftermath, Amal Ghandour on the meaning of justice in an unjust world, and Arie Amaya-Akkermans on Art Basel’s debut in the SWANA region.
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
Our second theme issue — MEDITERRANEANS — is intentionally plural. A plurality of places, in other words, a region teeming with histories of empire and trade, of migration and exile, but also, notably, a sea! 🔗 https://bit.ly/tmr-submissions
#TheMarkazReview #Mediterraneans #CallforSubmissions
🗓️ Nous discuterons du roman “Les déterrées” de Katia Belkhodja , le dimanche 15 mars à 18h CET / 12pm EST. Lara Vergnaud sera accompagnée de l’autrice elle-même pour échanger autour du roman.
🎟️ Inscrivez-vous gratuitement : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gnMApVTkT3yc4XmZ6LRmYw