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reads. writes. reviews. translates Managing Editor @ themarkaz.org
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I’ve read “Tale of a Wall”… his certainty that he would be in prison forever - I can’t imagine how this must feel…
add a skeleton here at some point
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز
about 2 months ago
📚 [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...
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز
about 2 months ago
📖 [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
about 2 months ago
🗓️[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
2 months ago
🖋️ Featuring:
@warghetti.bsky.social
,
@joelleabirached.bsky.social
,
@jordanelgrably.bsky.social
, Sara Shamma,
@bookfabulous.bsky.social
, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga,
@aycacu.bsky.social
,
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social
, and Farah Ahamed.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز
3 months ago
🤖 In our summer issue, @fadizaghmout.bsky.social’s "My Choices Are My Downfall" (tr. @bookfabulous.bsky.social) follows a woman, her robot, and one very bad morning in future Dubai. A fire breaks out—and it may not be the robot’s fault. 🔗Read:
bit.ly/my-choices-ar...
#TMR52
#FreedomToRead
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"My Choices Are My Downfall"—a short story by Fadi Zaghmout
What happens when a human-robot relationship forms? In near-future Dubai, an accident in a skyscraper holds the key to this question.
https://bit.ly/my-choices-are-my-downfall-a-short-story-by-fadi-zaghmout
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز
4 months ago
📚 [JUNE BOOK CLUB] Join us TODAY at 1pm EST to discuss Bothayna Al-Essa’s “The Book Censor’s Library,” a bold novel on censorship and free speech. Hosted by Rana Asfour (@bookfabulous.bsky.social) 👉 Register:
us02web.zoom.us/meet...
#TMRBookClub
#BannedBooks
#ArabicFiction
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز
5 months ago
📚 Join us for TMR Book Club to discuss The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa (trans. Hussain & Abdelrahman)—a gripping story of censorship & resistance. Hosted by Rana Asfour (
@bookfabulous.bsky.social
). 🗓 Sun, June 29 | 1pm EST 💻 Free & online:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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