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“A Love That Endures”: How Tamer and Sabreen Defied War and Death Today on @TheMarkazReview by Husam Maarouf. themarkaz.org/a-love-that-en…

Sabreen wrestled with the new reality ... She was no longer the girl who ran, stood tall, and danced with joy . . . In one wretched moment, she needed a wheelchair to face this cruel world. - Husam Maarouf's love story in @TheMarkazReview 🫀 themarkaz.org/a-love-that-en…

“They said, ‘Read!’ I said, ‘I won’t read!’ They punched me, and I fell off the chair.” 🚀 “Space Imam” by Hassan Blasim (trans. @abdulrazzak) is a surreal sci-fi tale of faith, methane & rebellion. Read via in our latest issue: bit.ly/space-imam #TheMarkazReview #TMR52…

📝 “They want to amputate my memory. They want to erase every trace of that life. But still, I remember.” Francesca Vawdrey on “Voices of Resistance: Diaries of a Genocide” by Batool Abu Akleen (@AbuAkleen), Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana & Ala’a Obaid (@commapress, 2025):…

📚“They weren’t waging a war against books so much as against reading.” In “The Book Censor’s Library,” (pub. @restlessbooks, tr. Ranya Abdelrahman and @sawadhussain) @Bothayna_AlEssa imagines a future where imagination is forbidden and reading becomes resistance. 📖 Review by…

'Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment' is officially out TOMORROW! Read a wonderful review in @TheMarkazReview: "This lack of hope, of political recognition, of stability, has enabled a project so ambitious, yet so endangered, to survive against all odds..."

In Reading, We Resist, by Paranda writer Marie Bamyani, was published by The Markaz Review @TheMarkazReview this month. Marie talks about the importance of the Paranda book club, where Afghan women writers select and discuss a variety of books. themarkaz.org/in-reading-we-…

30 years after #Srebrenica. My interview with Bosnian American artist Aida Sehovic on commemoration, empathy and art for @TheMarkazReview shorturl.at/PdX0H

“War stretches time. The things that had happened just two days ago felt like distant memories.” In “The Bullet, the Missile and the Woman In-Between,” Alireza Iranmehr (tr. @abdohsalar) captures the surreal rhythms of war and the quiet evolution of fear. 🔗…

بعد آمال عريضة بناها على عرض مدرسي، يصطدم الفتى بخيبة أمل تعكس معاناة والديه. قصة رائعة لمحمد فطومي من مجموعته «متحف الحكايات الضالة». اقرأها كاملة هنا: bit.ly/aldor-the-mark… #المركز_بالعربي #محمد_فطومي #الدور #قصة_قصيرة

“He was born in this very place, and it is where he spends each day, his emaciated foot resting against the swirls of dust…” In “Bleating” by Eman Al Yousuf (tr. @bookfabulous), revenge simmers on a yellow street where nothing—and no one—ever really leaves. 🔗…

Shrines, graves, martyrs’ walls — in Forgotten, Raja Shehadeh & Penny Johnson uncover Palestine’s hidden heritage. Gabriel Polley follows their elegiac journey through memory and erasure. 🔗 bit.ly/palestines-pla… #TMR #TMR52 #FreedomToRead #Palestine #BookReview

“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.” In this powerful tribute, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi honors Dr. Refaat Al-Areer — a teacher who turned pain into prose and made Gaza’s voice impossible to silence. 🔗 bit.ly/a-voice-that-d… #TMR #GazaVoices #RefaatAlAreer

“It holds form without function — presence without clarity.” Meriam Othman on Baghdad’s Al-Rahman Mosque: a vast, unfinished structure that haunts Iraq’s skyline — and its political memory. 🔗 bit.ly/architecture-a… #TMR #TMR52 #FreedomToRead #Iraq #ArchitectureAndMemory

عن لحظة الانتقال من العقل إلى الجنون، وحيرة الأخت وهي تشاهد أختها تنزلق إلى مكان بعيد بلا إرادة منها، تكتب إيمان عبد الرحيم قصة قصيرة مأخوذة من مجموعتها القصصية الأخيرة «مقطوعات على الحب والخوف». يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي: bit.ly/fisam-the-mark… #قصة_قصيرة

☀️📚 TMR Editor-in-Chief @JordanElgrably shares his summer reads, from Beirut to Zanzibar to Bogotá. Fiction, essays & more by Gurnah, Shehadeh, Azell, Humaydane & others. Support bold writing: bit.ly/tmr-membership… #TMR #SummerReading #Books

“I have many languages — they are all mine.” Lara Vergnaud on Arab writers in France and the tension (and freedom) of writing in French. What does “francophone” really mean? 🔗 bit.ly/arab-writing-i… #TheMarkazReview #ArabWriters

🗓️ [UPCOMING EVENT] Join us July 27 to discuss "The Burning Heart of the World" (@redhenpress) with author @nancykric—a lyrical saga of a Beirut Armenian family shaped by war & exile. Hosted by @bookfabulous. ⏰ 1pm EST 💻 Free & online: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #TMRBookClub

عن القاهرة القديمة وشوارعها، تكتب سارة شاهين بلغة رصينة وممتعة، وبرؤية جديدة لمدينة لا تزال أسيرتها. 📖 اقرأ المقال كاملًا: bit.ly/lamakanelaalqa… #المركز_بالعربي #سارة_شاهين #لا_مكان_إلا_القاهرة #مقال

“I am going back to my husband and children, even if it means seeing them with one eye.” Nahla Karam’s story (tr. @thenadafaris) of two women sharing a hospital room in Cairo, where longing, betrayal, and survival coexist. 🔗 bit.ly/waving-at-the-… #TMR52 #FreedomToRead