We’re all so excited this happening! We can’t wait to receive your stories!

Our vision in launching the TMR prizes is to discover and uplift exceptional writers from the SWANA region. We seek to recognize and celebrate excellence in two distinct genres, the short story and the literary essay/creative nonfiction.  >Submissions are now open: www.themarkaz.org/literaryprizes 

Proud & grateful to be a part of this amazing team 😎💕

📚 TMR Book Club w/ Rana Asfour discusses "My Friends" by Hisham Matar — Jan 25, 1pm EST online. Friendship, exile, resistance. 🔗 Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yfXMbGErQ1uN2ume1aJFmg#/registration#/registration #TMRBookClub #TheMarkazReview

I’ve read “Tale of a Wall”… his certainty that he would be in prison forever - I can’t imagine how this must feel…

📚 [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

📖 [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

🗓️[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...

🖋️ 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.

🤖 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

📚 [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

📚 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...