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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 2h

🫂 [TMR 54 FRIENDSHIP]

Rana Asfour’s (@bookfabulous.bsky.social) editorial explores why friendship matters at a time like this — its joys, challenges, and the bonds at the heart of community and belonging.

🔗 bit.ly/why-friendship

#TMR54 #Friendship #Editorial

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HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social · 3d

Today begins Banned Books Week, celebrating the freedom to read. Join the fight against censorship and explore frequently challenged classics like George Orwell’s 1984: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/right-to-read

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 7d

🍉 [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, on the Gaza flotilla — activist action breaking new ground for international law and global justice, in conversation with Lina Mounzer.

🔗 bit.ly/the-uns-spec...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #GlobalSumudFlotilla

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 8d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Dina Shehata’s essay “Girl, Cat, Wolf Under the Bed” traces childhood fears, survival, and silent languages in company with animals. Translated by @bookfabulous.bsky.social.

🔗 https://bit.ly/girl-cat-wolf-under-the-bed

#TMR53 #Essay

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 10d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

In “The Midday Ghoul,” Safa Elnaili reimagines a haunting Libyan folktale from a child’s point of view. This lyrical short story explores fear, family, and bitter lessons in the afternoon heat of Benghazi.

🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/the-midday-ghoul

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 11d

عن قلق التقدم في العمر، وظهور رائحة جسد مميزة مرتبطة بالعجائز، ومحاولة التخلص من تلك الرائحة. تكتب بدار سالم قصة قصيرة رائعة.

يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
https://themarkaz.org/nonenal2/

#نونينال2 #بدار_سالم #قصة_قصيرة #المركز_بالعربي

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 12d

📰 [TMR WEEKLY]

Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide.

🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles

#TMRweekly #LatesArticles

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 12d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Mohammad Rabie’s essay, translated by Lina Mounzer explores a life marked by fear—searching for relief, joy, and wonder.

🔗 https://bit.ly/all-the-old-fears

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #Essay

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Hussain A. Ayoub @dreadunderarm.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to share that my short story “War & War”, first place in the Azhar Writing Prize, is now published in
@markaz-review.bsky.social.

📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war

#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity

War and War

Winner of the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize — A foreign correspondent confronts devastation and violence before crossing a line of no return.

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 13d

📣 [TMR 5-Year Anniversary]

Editor-in-Chief Jordan Elgrably (@jordanelgrably.bsky.social) celebrates five years of The Markaz Review! Over 600 writers, 1.5 million readers, and literature as liberation.

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/the-markaz-r...

#TMR5Years #SWANA #Anniversary

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 13d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”

🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 14d

🗓️ [TMR EVENT - BEIRUT]

Celebrate five years of The Markaz Review at Barzakh Café! Join editors @jordanelgrably.bsky.social & @warghetti.bsky.social for readings, conversation, and community. Literature is liberation. Free, public, all are welcome.

🔗 bit.ly/tmr-at-barza...

#TheMarkazReview #Beirut

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 15d

📰 [TMR WEEKLY]

Latest in TMR Weekly: new articles on Iran’s landscape, Basra’s orchards, revolution in documentaries, global Palestine solidarity, Algeria’s silencing, and media failures in Armenia/Palestine.

🔗 See all: bit.ly/weekly-latest...

#TheMarkazReview #TMRweekly #LatestArticles

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 16d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Farah Ahamed’s short story “A Safe Place”: a woman in solitary in Pakistan rethinks sanity and survival.

🔗 bit.ly/a-safe-place-

#TMR53 #FarahAhamed

The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 17d

📚 [TMR BOOK CLUB]

Host Rana Asfour (@bookfabulous.bsky.social) welcomes you Sept. 28 for “Sand-Catcher” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) with author Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine joining us for the discussion!

🔗 RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#TMRBookClub #OnlineEvent

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Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social · 19d

"State repression has affected journalists, members of political parties, civil society activists, university students, professors, artists, & lawyers, even Algerians involved in the Hirak in the diaspora." @markaz-review.bsky.social

themarkaz.org/the-silencin...

The Silencing of Algeria

Six years after the Hirak mass protest movement in Algeria in 2019, an atmosphere of fear and silence continues to loom over the country.

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 19d

📖 [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Check out our list of 10 powerful books from The Markaz Review’s new issue—stories of survival, mental health, and resistance across continents.

🔗 See the list: bit.ly/10-books-for-...

#TMR53 #BookList @bookfabulous.bsky.social

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 20d

📚 [SAVE THE DATE]

Le club de lecture français de The Markaz Review débute le 5 octobre, animé par Lara Vergnaud ! Discutez “Quatre jours sans ma mère” avec Ramsès Kefi, en ligne.

🔗 Infos : us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#LeBookClub #TheMarkazReview #ÉvénementEnLigne

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 22d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Real Bakhit’s essay reveals the lives of Sudanese exiles—finding joy, coping with guilt, and seeking belonging in crisis.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/i-dont-have-t...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 22d

تتأمل سيدة في الخمسين من عمرها قطارات عمرها الفائتة، في قصة قصيرة رائعة لهدى الوليلي.

يمكنكم قراءة القصة كاملة من خلال الرابط التالي:
themarkaz.org/missed...

#قطارات_فائتة #هدى_الوليلي #قصة_قصيرة #المركز_بالعربي

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 23d

🌟 [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Malu Halasa explores how Iranians seek solace and healing amid protest and crisis—tracing a path from grief to hope through therapy, resistance, and care.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/remaining-in-...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 23d

🗓️[UPCOMING EVENT]

Join us on Sept. 28 at 1pm EST for #TMRBookClub! We’ll discuss “Sand-Catcher,” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) a moving fable of Palestinian memory. Author Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine join us. Hosted by @bookfabulous.bsky.social

🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 25d

يكتب أحمد إبراهيم إسماعيل عن قاهرة المستقبل البعيد، بعد حروب وأهوال صُبت عليها، ومهاجرين وعشائر دخلوها، وتغييرات لا تنتهي أصابتها، إلى أن يأتي العام الأخير في عمر القاهرة.

يمكنكم قراءة المقتطف كاملًا من خلال الرابط التالي:
themarkaz.org/lastye...

#العام_الأخير_في_عمر_القاهرة #أحمد_إبراهيم_إسماعيل

The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 26d

🎨 [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

@jordanelgrably.bsky.social profiles Sara Shamma, whose powerful art channels trauma, memory, and emotional survival in a fractured world.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/sara-shamma-f...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #FeaturedArtist

The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 28d

🗣️ [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds

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