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In our October issue, @mannahattamamma argues that now is the time to reclaim the idea of the public intellectual at a societal level. Read the full article: bit.ly/it-is-time-to-… #tmr35 #publicintellectual #newarticle #opinions #deborahwilliams

From The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social today, my translation of Hisham Bustani هشام البستاني's meditations on Amman--a city filled with people I desperately miss right now. themarkaz.org/an-improvised-…

#Philippines: The horrific murder of #JuanJumalon demonstrates why the Philippines remains one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. This public shooting sends a terrifying message to others. theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

In our November issue, TMR 36 ARCHITECTURE, T.H. Shalaby maps out and questions architectural planning in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. Read more: bit.ly/atom-bombs-and… #tmr36 #architecture #newarticle #essays #featuredarticle #tarekshalaby

Our reviewer @EQuotah appreciated this collection of Arab poets: themarkaz.org/what-we-write-… @zeinabeck Nathalie Handal / The City and the Writer Poetry Foundation

Earthquakes too, not just war, devastate cities. Short story by صَلاح باديس recalls the 2003 quake along the coast east of Algiers and the ghostly detritus of lost, forgotten lives, in The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social's architect issue: themarkaz.org/before-the-ear…

Hear women's voices from Iran like you've never heard them before. Woman Life Freedom anthology Saqi Books #womenlifefreedom finally available in the US. Zoom into the book launch City Lights Books in San Francisco tomorrow night. youtube.com/watch?v=gY2Bw7…

On #WomanLifeFreedom, protest art, graffiti @KhiabanTribuine & surveillance in Iran, the art of anthologizing and labels, with the ever inquiring DAL for Tenderbooks Chat instagram.com/p/CzY1RBHMR5C/…

5th installment of Hossam Madhoun's Messages from Gaza NOW. Moving, frightening, can't turn away from, the theater-maker tells it like it is from this brutal war. People are starving; the death toll rising. Is anyone out there listening or cares? themarkaz.org/messages-from-…

Today's Monday edition of @markazreview also features a critical art piece by West Bank curator Nadine Nadine Aranki on the resurgence of the Palestinian posters. themarkaz.org/new-palestinia… #StrikeForPalestine #Art #Palestine #Gallery #Zawyeh

Interested in how surveillance changed photography in Iran, subaltern perspectives in art, and edgy Persian visual arts? Join Sahar Saki, Vali Mahlouji vali mahlouji and myself tomorrow at SOAS for an illustrated lecture & discussion. Lina Khatib @themarkazreview Saqi Books

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Our anthology, Woman Life Freedom: Voices & Art from the Women's Protests in Iran made the shortlist for the 2024 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Thanks to #WomanLifeFreedom, #MahsaAmini, KhiabanTribune. Way to go Saqi Books: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com

What it's like to be on stage hijab-less & breaking barriers in Tehran. In The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social theatre issue, #WomanLifeFreedom, #MahsaAmini: themarkaz.org/nothing-is-nor…

Gaza, censorship, revolution, Syria, Arab Shakespeare on & off stage will be covered in tomorrow's The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social roundtable discussion on Middle Eastern theater at home & in the diaspora. Hosted by Iraqi playwright Hassan Hassan Abdulrazzak: themarkaz.org/event/tmr-42-t…

Writers, artists, translators, cartoonists, editors in Iran & elsewhere all thrilled that our Woman Life Freedom anthology has been included in the 2024 shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, Saqi Books. breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/bre…

Arid MENA, its natural resources and sun sucked up by the West, read Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy & Climate Justice in the Arab Region by Hamza Hamouchene @BenToumert & Katie Sandwell Pluto Press, reviewed by Richard Lim The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social : themarkaz.org/the-battle-for…

One week before The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social's double literary issue with short stories and creative nonfiction from Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, Afghanistan, Iran, Algeria + memoir, diaries & graphic novels. Until then, go out: themarkaz.org/world-picks-fr…

I ran into Ashura celebrations in London today, in Piccadilly. Then I heard about this Ashura celebration in Karaj, Iran, with young women who marched with no headscarves. They were questioned by the police. rferl.org/a/iran-ashura-…