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Hanan Habashi, a Palestinian teacher remembers the sister who taught her the passive voice — and traces the violence of moving through the world as a well-structured argument.

🔗 Read it now: https://bit.ly/the-passive-voice-of-light-on-grief-and-imperial-grammar

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July 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Historian Assal Rad talks about the impetus and intended impact behind her new book, Don’t Say Palestine.

> Discover Assal Rad in conversation with Lina Mounzer: bit.ly/the-infrastructure-of-truth-a-conversation-with-assal-rad

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September 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
There is little respite in the modern-day bloodletting that encompasses the globe, and yet we must fight on.

> Read Amal Ghandour’s latest “This Arab Life” column: bit.ly/interesting-times-we-are-well-beyond-them-now

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September 25, 2026 at 1:01 PM
In his latest story, Erfan Mojib dives into a wartime childhood shaped by scarcity and ritual, as a pair of twins become obsessed with a plant their grandfather cannot grow.

🔗 Dive into his story: https://bit.ly/tarragon-a-short-story

#TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview #Fiction #SWANAliterature
May 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The Metropolis Cinema in Beirut celebrates twenty years of showing indie cinema, surviving multiple crises.

> Read Jim Quilty’s article: bit.ly/metropolis-cinema-celebrates-two-decades-in-beirut

#TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview #Beirut #Cinema #Lebanon #Lebanesefilm
July 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
At a family holiday, a father's death and the birth of a child collapse time and challenge faith in unexpected ways.

> Read Nezar Andary’s short story now: https://bit.ly/yall-come-back-now-fiction

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July 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@dilmunite.bsky.social) reviews “Hope Without Hope” by Matt Broomfield — a deep dive into Rojava’s revolution, failure, and hope.

📘 Published by @akpress.org

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Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment
Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for global liberation movements.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Jiyar Jahan Fard's debut novel, "The Shadeless Border" (translated by Chiya Parvizpur), centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.

> Read Matt Broomfield’s review: bit.ly/the-shadeless-border-gives-voice-to-kurdish-borderlands

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September 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
In his latest story, Erfan Mojib explores how a child’s question about a mysterious plant opens onto something far more dangerous.

🔗 Dive into his story: https://bit.ly/tarragon-a-short-story

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May 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Latest in TMR Weekly: two powerful reflections on memory, migration, and meaning.

🔗 Dive in: bit.ly/3O4lB9S

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April 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Dive into Rebecca Lloyd’s modern gothic story, where a house on the island of Unguja becomes something far more terrifying than what it seems.

🔗 Dive into her story: https://bit.ly/the-house-dog-a-short-story

#TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview #MiniIssue #Fiction #Gothicliterature #RebeccaLloyd
May 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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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...

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September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This week in TMR: stories of transformation and displacement—from the shifting streets of Cairo to the liminal lives of Palestinian exiles.

Dive in here: https://bit.ly/3O4lB9S

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June 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📰 In this week’s TMR: Stories of war, memory, and survival. From Gaza to Beirut, explore powerful essays on displacement, motherhood, and the trauma of siege.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3O4lB9S

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June 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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

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September 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sinan Antoon’s self-translated novel explores the different ways memory unfolds in exile but offers no closure.

> Discover Saleem Haddad’s latest review: bit.ly/memory-and-forgetting-in-of-loss-and-lavender

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July 31, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Shahab Eddin Pakbeen answered a couple of questions about his latest short story, “Please Wait.”

> Read Shahab Eddin Pakbeen's latest piece: https://bit.ly/please-wait-a-short-story

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September 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A writer responds to criticisms of her column, but stands her ground, "recklessly" simplifying a fraught discourse.

> Read Amal Ghandour’s column right now: bit.ly/where-do-people-who-refuse-to-belong-belong

#TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview #SWANAliterature #ThisArabLife #AmalGhandour #Lebanon
July 24, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Kali Rubaii explores how Iraqi farmers endure despite U.S. military intervention, as they repair their war-damaged homeland.

> Discover Kali Rubaii and Nazli Tarzi’s conversation: https://bit.ly/tomorrow-is-better-than-today-survival-in-anbar

#TMRWeekly #SWANAliterature #MilitaryViolence #Iraq
July 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
For the first edition of The Fiction Desk, Barâa Arar offers us a reading of her latest short story, “The Dentist’s Son.”

> Discover Barâa Arar’s latest story: bit.ly/the-dentists-son-a-short-story

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September 18, 2026 at 11:01 AM
As part of The Fiction Desk, TMR Fiction Editor Saleem Haddad interviews Barâa Arar about her latest short story, "The Dentist's Son."

> Discover Barâa Arar’s interview: bit.ly/the-dentists-son-a-short-story

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September 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
The Mediterranean Sea serves as a backdrop that sparks artistic contemplation, connects distant shores like a bridge of hope, and, tragically, stands as an immense cemetery.

🔗 Read it now: https://bit.ly/the-lens-of-the-north-and-the-lung-of-the-south-fiction

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June 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM
In this short story, a man returns to his hometown and must negotiate his relationship with faith, community, and a woman from his past.

> Discover Barâa Arar’s latest story: bit.ly/the-dentists-son-a-short-story

#TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview #SWANAliterature #ShortStory #TheFictionDesk #Fiction
September 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Explore music as resilience, truth as revolution, and Armenian film memory in our latest features.

Read more: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles

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October 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Egyptian feminism is not a footnote to revolution—it is its foundation.

In TMR Weekly, Jasmin Attia reviews Lucia Sorbera’s “Biography of a Revolution,” (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2025) tracing a century of feminist struggle that made 2011 possible.

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Without Women, the 2011 Revolution Might Have Never Been
The long history of Egyptian women's activism created the intellectual and political background for revolution.
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August 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM