Jordan Elgrably
@jordanelgrably.bsky.social
Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Editor-in-chief @TheMarkazReview
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Stories from the Center of the World (w/ Jordan Elgrably) | The Chris Hedges Report
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Thank you, Chris Hedges, I enjoyed the conversation on your podcast recently, where we talked about the various histories and cultures of the region:
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Under Trump, the United States is becoming a Banana Republic. We should insure that Trump and his flunkies are arrested and prosecuted, as soon as possible. open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
America is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Under Trump, the United States is becoming a Banana Republic. We should insure that Trump and his flunkies are arrested and prosecuted, as soon as possible. open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
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🖋️ “Silence is Not the Way” gathers Arab writers refusing complicity — confronting genocide and affirming that literature must not remain neutral. @jordanelgrably.bsky.social
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🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-no...
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🖋️ “Silence is Not the Way” gathers Arab writers refusing complicity — confronting genocide and affirming that literature must not remain neutral. @jordanelgrably.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-no...
🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-no...
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🖋️ “Silence is Not the Way” gathers Arab writers refusing complicity — confronting genocide and affirming that literature must not remain neutral. @jordanelgrably.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-n...
🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-n...
“Silence is Not the Way”—Arab Writers Against Israel’s Genocide
When one poet declines to participate on the international stage in Edinburgh, supporters of Palestinian human rights are in a quandary.
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August 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🖋️ “Silence is Not the Way” gathers Arab writers refusing complicity — confronting genocide and affirming that literature must not remain neutral. @jordanelgrably.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-n...
🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-n...
Great #ziadrahbani hommage in @markaz-review.bsky.social
by Diran Mardirian from the great #ChicoRecords shop in Beirut, founded by his dad who also set up the #Zida label w/ Ziad in the '70s!
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by Diran Mardirian from the great #ChicoRecords shop in Beirut, founded by his dad who also set up the #Zida label w/ Ziad in the '70s!
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Ziad Rahbani: The Making of a Lebanese Jazz Legend
A look at Ziad Rahbani's life and legacy, and the man who first introduced him to the jazz sound that transformed Lebanon's musical landscape.
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August 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Great #ziadrahbani hommage in @markaz-review.bsky.social
by Diran Mardirian from the great #ChicoRecords shop in Beirut, founded by his dad who also set up the #Zida label w/ Ziad in the '70s!
themarkaz.org/ziad-rahbani...
by Diran Mardirian from the great #ChicoRecords shop in Beirut, founded by his dad who also set up the #Zida label w/ Ziad in the '70s!
themarkaz.org/ziad-rahbani...
Huge congrats to my friend Mischa Geracoulis on her new book and the review in #Hyperallergic !
hyperallergic.com/1021592/fram...
hyperallergic.com/1021592/fram...
Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation
The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.
hyperallergic.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Huge congrats to my friend Mischa Geracoulis on her new book and the review in #Hyperallergic !
hyperallergic.com/1021592/fram...
hyperallergic.com/1021592/fram...
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The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment
Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
ARE YOU NOT SICK TO DEATH OF OUR GOVERNMENTS' INACTION WHEN PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN GAZA? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO, TAKE UP ARMS? BOMB ISRAEL TO MAKE THEM STOP THIS CRUEL WAR CRIME?
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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July 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
ARE YOU NOT SICK TO DEATH OF OUR GOVERNMENTS' INACTION WHEN PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN GAZA? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO, TAKE UP ARMS? BOMB ISRAEL TO MAKE THEM STOP THIS CRUEL WAR CRIME?
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The NYT should have published this a year ago. It came out today, but better late than never. How will the west react?
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The NYT should have published this a year ago. It came out today, but better late than never. How will the west react?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Things might not be so far gone for US democracy if #HamidDabashi is right about the trend that would elect #ZohranMamdani
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Why is The New York Times so afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
The liberal establishment's war on the New York City mayoral candidate reflects panic over a growing left challenge to Zionist orthodoxy and the mainstreaming of Palestine solidarity
www.middleeasteye.net
July 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Things might not be so far gone for US democracy if #HamidDabashi is right about the trend that would elect #ZohranMamdani
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-...
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-...
SOMETHING IS DEEPLY WRONG when the UK/US/EU talk about human rights EXCEPT FOR PALESTINIANS. This is wrong.
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UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide
Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism
www.middleeasteye.net
July 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
SOMETHING IS DEEPLY WRONG when the UK/US/EU talk about human rights EXCEPT FOR PALESTINIANS. This is wrong.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...
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I wrote about crying while reading a translators’ note.
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In Nasser Rabah’s Poetry, تقول القصيدة كلمتها
Nasser Rabah and other poets of Gaza are still writing — still sending their poems to us, because Palestine is literature.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I wrote about crying while reading a translators’ note.
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Tune into 3 Arab public intellectuals, Moustafa & Hisham Bustani, moderated by Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social :
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Public Intellectual, a conversation produced by The Markaz Review
Radio Tabbouli · Episode
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June 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tune into 3 Arab public intellectuals, Moustafa & Hisham Bustani, moderated by Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social :
open.spotify.com/episode/3Jug...
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📖 [POETRY MARKAZ]
Jawdat Fakhreddine’s “Bilād” is a haunting ode to lost homelands and resistance, bridging Arabic literary tradition and today’s struggles.
🔗 Read the piece + 3 translated poems: bit.ly/jawdat-fakred...
#TMRPoetry #ArabicPoetry
Jawdat Fakhreddine’s “Bilād” is a haunting ode to lost homelands and resistance, bridging Arabic literary tradition and today’s struggles.
🔗 Read the piece + 3 translated poems: bit.ly/jawdat-fakred...
#TMRPoetry #ArabicPoetry
Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems
A major name in Arabic poetry, Jawdat Fakhreddine establishes a revolutionary dialogue between international values and the Arabic tradition.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📖 [POETRY MARKAZ]
Jawdat Fakhreddine’s “Bilād” is a haunting ode to lost homelands and resistance, bridging Arabic literary tradition and today’s struggles.
🔗 Read the piece + 3 translated poems: bit.ly/jawdat-fakred...
#TMRPoetry #ArabicPoetry
Jawdat Fakhreddine’s “Bilād” is a haunting ode to lost homelands and resistance, bridging Arabic literary tradition and today’s struggles.
🔗 Read the piece + 3 translated poems: bit.ly/jawdat-fakred...
#TMRPoetry #ArabicPoetry
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We invite you to read today's TMR Weekly stories. Start with our correspondent from Tehran.
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We invite you to read today's TMR Weekly stories. Start with our correspondent from Tehran.
themarkaz.org/tmr-weekly/
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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We invite you to read today's TMR Weekly stories. Start with our correspondent from Tehran.
themarkaz.org/tmr-weekly/
We invite you to read today's TMR Weekly stories. Start with our correspondent from Tehran.
themarkaz.org/tmr-weekly/
Curious what life is like today in Tehran?
themarkaz.org/missiles-and...
@warghetti.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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@warghetti.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the "12-Day War"
A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Curious what life is like today in Tehran?
themarkaz.org/missiles-and...
@warghetti.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
themarkaz.org/missiles-and...
@warghetti.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My colleagues @markaz-review.bsky.social have published a new issue today, entitled MEZZE. Who's hungry? themarkaz.org/category/tmr...
June 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My colleagues @markaz-review.bsky.social have published a new issue today, entitled MEZZE. Who's hungry? themarkaz.org/category/tmr...
Three of us editors from The Markaz Review gave a creative writing workshop all day Saturday in London in the Shubbak Festival: full house! Query us, editors-at-themarkaz.org
June 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Three of us editors from The Markaz Review gave a creative writing workshop all day Saturday in London in the Shubbak Festival: full house! Query us, editors-at-themarkaz.org
Montpellier's a great city, always hopping. Gotta love the annual book fest Comédie du Livre, but also the #FestivalArabesque and #CINEMED and so much more.
May 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Montpellier's a great city, always hopping. Gotta love the annual book fest Comédie du Livre, but also the #FestivalArabesque and #CINEMED and so much more.
What's life like in San Francisco these days? Here's what one former San Franciscan, now ensconced in Valencia, Spain, has to say on the subject: medium.com/city-life/si...
Silicon Valley Killed San Francisco — It’s Over
After four months in Spain, I came back to find my favorite US city hollowed out — quiet, expensive, and optimized to death.
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May 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
What's life like in San Francisco these days? Here's what one former San Franciscan, now ensconced in Valencia, Spain, has to say on the subject: medium.com/city-life/si...
Today is the 77th commemoration of the Nabka, the day that #Palestinians know as the catastrophe. The Markaz Review editors have put together this book list. Please share it widely: themarkaz.org/editors-2025...
Editors' 2025 Palestinian Lit List
May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.
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May 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today is the 77th commemoration of the Nabka, the day that #Palestinians know as the catastrophe. The Markaz Review editors have put together this book list. Please share it widely: themarkaz.org/editors-2025...
I have more respect now for Ben Affleck, although I disagreed with some of the ideology behind his film "Argo"; certainly Sam Harris is a Zionist and an anti-Muslim bigot. x.com/zei_squirrel...
☀️👀 on X: "Ben Affleck calls out the depraved racist Islamophobia of genocidal Zionists like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, and explains how this dehumanization is used to justify the mass slaughter and rape of Arabs and Muslims, as is happening now with Palestinians https://t.co/WIyE0nCIwH" / X
Ben Affleck calls out the depraved racist Islamophobia of genocidal Zionists like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, and explains how this dehumanization is used to justify the mass slaughter and rape of Arabs and Muslims, as is happening now with Palestinians https://t.co/WIyE0nCIwH
x.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I have more respect now for Ben Affleck, although I disagreed with some of the ideology behind his film "Argo"; certainly Sam Harris is a Zionist and an anti-Muslim bigot. x.com/zei_squirrel...
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this is absolutely horrifying. every single American should be speaking out against what’s happening in neighborhoods & cities across the country right now
Chaos erupts in Massachusetts neighborhood as ICE drags away mom—clinging to her baby.
The crowd asked ICE to show an ID or warrant for the arrest—agents replied, "We don’t have to show you anything."
Local police then arrested the teen daughter of woman ICE had just detained for being "hostile."
The crowd asked ICE to show an ID or warrant for the arrest—agents replied, "We don’t have to show you anything."
Local police then arrested the teen daughter of woman ICE had just detained for being "hostile."
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
this is absolutely horrifying. every single American should be speaking out against what’s happening in neighborhoods & cities across the country right now
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On this #WorldPressFreedomDay I’m thinking of the 210+ Palestinian journalists who’ve been killed by Israel in the past year & a half—and how deeply sad it is that, as our western media continues to look away, the number pub’d below (in April) is already out of date💔
May 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
On this #WorldPressFreedomDay I’m thinking of the 210+ Palestinian journalists who’ve been killed by Israel in the past year & a half—and how deeply sad it is that, as our western media continues to look away, the number pub’d below (in April) is already out of date💔