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🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE is live!
🔗 Read the new issue now: https://bit.ly/tmr57-palestine
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57 #Palestine #SWANAlit #MiddleEastArts #NewIssue #Fiction #Essays #Poetry #Art
🔗 Read the new issue now: https://bit.ly/tmr57-palestine
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57 #Palestine #SWANAlit #MiddleEastArts #NewIssue #Fiction #Essays #Poetry #Art
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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February 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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
❤️ 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
#MotherTongue #LanguageAndIdentity #LifeInTranslation #DiasporaLit #LiteraryMagazine
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
📖 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
#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
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
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
📝 [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
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
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
February 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🍉 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
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
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
February 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM
🍉 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
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
🗓️ Sunday, February 22nd at 1pm EST online.
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February 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
📚 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
🗓️ 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
February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🍉 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
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine #PalestinianLiterature
February 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🍉 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
#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
🔗 https://bit.ly/prison-and-the-writer-interview-with-palestinian-nasser-abu-srour
#TMR57Palestine #Palestine
February 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
🍉 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
🔗 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
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
📰 [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
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
#TheMarkazReview #Mediterraneans #CallforSubmissions
February 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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
#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
🎟️ Inscrivez-vous gratuitement : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gnMApVTkT3yc4XmZ6LRmYw
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🗓️ 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
🎟️ Inscrivez-vous gratuitement : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gnMApVTkT3yc4XmZ6LRmYw
For years, The Markaz Review has been a literary home for SWANA writers and artists.
Support bold writing, translation, and new voices. Donate today:
https://bit.ly/donatetmr
Support bold writing, translation, and new voices. Donate today:
https://bit.ly/donatetmr
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
For years, The Markaz Review has been a literary home for SWANA writers and artists.
Support bold writing, translation, and new voices. Donate today:
https://bit.ly/donatetmr
Support bold writing, translation, and new voices. Donate today:
https://bit.ly/donatetmr
🍉 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
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
🍉 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
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine
🍉 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
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
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
🍉 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
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
🍉 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
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🍉 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
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
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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
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
يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/with-a-neon-lamp-he-is-risen/
#المركز_بالعربي #حسين_فوزي
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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
يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/with-a-neon-lamp-he-is-risen/
#المركز_بالعربي #حسين_فوزي
🍉 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
#TheMarkazReview
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🍉 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
#TheMarkazReview
🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE: Discover a powerful lineup of stories illuminating Palestine through fiction, non-fiction, and young adult literature. 🔗 Explore the full list here: bit.ly/notable-and-forthcoming-books-centered-on-palestine.
#TheMarkazReview #ReadingList #BooksToRead #TMR57Palestine
#TheMarkazReview #ReadingList #BooksToRead #TMR57Palestine
February 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE: Discover a powerful lineup of stories illuminating Palestine through fiction, non-fiction, and young adult literature. 🔗 Explore the full list here: bit.ly/notable-and-forthcoming-books-centered-on-palestine.
#TheMarkazReview #ReadingList #BooksToRead #TMR57Palestine
#TheMarkazReview #ReadingList #BooksToRead #TMR57Palestine
New in TMR Weekly: Excerpt of Ziyad Saadi’s “Three Parties”, Alex Demyanenko reflects on The President’s Cake, and Selma Dabbagh reviews Lena El‑Malak’s work.
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
New in TMR Weekly: Excerpt of Ziyad Saadi’s “Three Parties”, Alex Demyanenko reflects on The President’s Cake, and Selma Dabbagh reviews Lena El‑Malak’s work.
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
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
🗓️ February 22nd at 1pm EST online/19:00 CET.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TwDstEMbS3CHzjtT7KFGrA#/registration
February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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
🗓️ February 22nd at 1pm EST online/19:00 CET.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TwDstEMbS3CHzjtT7KFGrA#/registration
🍉 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
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
February 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
🍉 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
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
🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE:
In this essay on Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, Arie Amaya-Akkermans traces how her sculptures and installations turn the intimate objects of home into sites of fracture, exile, and uneasy memory. 🔗https://bit.ly/behind-the-seen-mona-hatoum-on-art-and-palestine
In this essay on Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, Arie Amaya-Akkermans traces how her sculptures and installations turn the intimate objects of home into sites of fracture, exile, and uneasy memory. 🔗https://bit.ly/behind-the-seen-mona-hatoum-on-art-and-palestine
February 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE:
In this essay on Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, Arie Amaya-Akkermans traces how her sculptures and installations turn the intimate objects of home into sites of fracture, exile, and uneasy memory. 🔗https://bit.ly/behind-the-seen-mona-hatoum-on-art-and-palestine
In this essay on Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, Arie Amaya-Akkermans traces how her sculptures and installations turn the intimate objects of home into sites of fracture, exile, and uneasy memory. 🔗https://bit.ly/behind-the-seen-mona-hatoum-on-art-and-palestine
🍉 Esraa Abo Qamar’s moving Palestinian testimonial excerpt.
🔗 Read the full piece now: https://bit.ly/letter-from-gaza-our-long-wait-for-gas
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine
🔗 Read the full piece now: https://bit.ly/letter-from-gaza-our-long-wait-for-gas
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine
February 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
🍉 Esraa Abo Qamar’s moving Palestinian testimonial excerpt.
🔗 Read the full piece now: https://bit.ly/letter-from-gaza-our-long-wait-for-gas
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine
🔗 Read the full piece now: https://bit.ly/letter-from-gaza-our-long-wait-for-gas
#TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine