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
25.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📝 [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
20.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🗓️ 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.
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19.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.”
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19.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📝 [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
17.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 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
17.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 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
16.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📚 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
15.02.2026 09:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 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
14.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 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
13.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
12.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🗓️ 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
12.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE: In this essay, Raja Shehadeh asks the impossible question: How can Palestinians and Israelis live together? 🔗 https://bit.ly/how-can-palestinians-and-israelis-live-together
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine
11.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE
When a foreigner arrives in the village of Bir Saba, carrying strange equipment and foretelling bad fortune, everything begins to tilt. Discover Sahar Mustafah’s new short story in our latest issue. 🔗 https://bit.ly/tiny-suns-a-short-story
#TMR57Palestine #Palestine
10.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE : In Mark LeVine’s essay, Edward Said reminds us of the power of oppositional intellectuals at a time when Palestine is generating unprecedented sympathy and more grassroots solidarity than ever. 🔗 https://bit.ly/edward-said-prophet-symphonist-exemplar
10.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In her latest column, “Two Spectacles: A Lebanese Farce, an American Fault Line,” Amal Ghandour juxtaposes a Lebanese scam farce with U.S. MAGA debates on Gaza, finding hope in shifting tides. 🔗 https://bit.ly/two-spectacles-a-lebanese-farce-an-american-fault-line
09.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
عن مخاوف الطفولة وأرق التعامل مع الأب العائد بعد غياب طويل، يكتب حسين فوزي قصة قصيرة مبهرة، حيث تحاول الشخصية الرئيسية التعامل مع هلاوسها وخيالاتها التي لا تهدأ.
يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/with-a-neon-lamp-he-is-risen/
#المركز_بالعربي #حسين_فوزي
09.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 TMR 57 - PALESTINE: A mom from Bethlehem exposes how Israeli settlement plans encroach even on sacred ground. 🔗 https://bit.ly/not-even-the-dead-rest-in-palestine
#TheMarkazReview
08.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rana Asfour is joined by Layla AlAmmar as guest moderator to discuss The Book of Disappearance (Syracuse University Press) by Ibtisam Azem, who will be in attendance!
🗓️ February 22nd at 1pm EST online/19:00 CET.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TwDstEMbS3CHzjtT7KFGrA#/registration
05.02.2026 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE
More than a question of convenience, the transportation issue can be a matter of life or death.
Mariam Mushtaha, an emerging Palestinian writer, shares a raw testimonial about life in Gaza.
🔗 Read her full piece now: https://bit.ly/letter-from-gaza-stuck-in-place
04.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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