We are very proud to announce Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture edited by Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller.

Today, as Palestinian heritage is being destroyed, those that survive preserve their culture & history through literature, music, stories & memories

Los Angeles! Jordan Elgrably & friends Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center 8pm! Be there!

Me and Ahmed Naji in Las Vegas reading from our City Lights Books

🚨 THIS THURSDAY: Join us for the L.A. launch of “Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction” (City Lights Books) with editor Jordan Elgrably and contributing writer Reza Sixo Safai, in partnership with The Markaz Review مجلة المركز.

🆓 FREE! ➡️ RSVP! eventbrite.com/e/la-launch-st…

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The stunning poem by Samer Abu Hawwash, translated by Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين, evokes Darwish’s 'Passport':

“…All the fields of wheat
All the prisons
All the white tombs
All the borders
All the waved handkerchiefs
All the eyes
Were with me، but they stripped them from my passport…”

📸 [TMR 41 • FORGETTING]

Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.

Read the full essay by Nabil Salih نبيل صالح in our latest issue: bit.ly/regarding-the-…

Want to hear more from Nabil? Join us on Thursday, May 16th for an online

Youssef Rakha writes beautifully about many things: cities, gods, ghosts, the slow and then dizzyingly fast spiral of history

But dare I say very few men have ever written so well about women and mothers

Here’s the story as it appeared in The Markaz Review مجلة المركز

themarkaz.org/the-devils-wai…

HAPPY PUB DAY TO Jordan Elgrably AND ALL THE AMAZING WRITERS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS BOOK 🥳🥂🪅🙌🥳🥳

(Btw if you're in North America they might be coming on their tour to a bookstore near you)

'Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on . . . '

My story Godshow.com is published WordsWithoutBorders

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Congratulations 🎉

It’s a really good story 🌹🙏🏻

I didn’t know it was possible to tear reading a review of one’s own book. But here I am. Thank you Saleem (Saleem Haddad سليم حداد) for this beautiful review of #MyBrotherMyLand with Sireen Sawalha in The Markaz Review مجلة المركز. 1/2

Will be there 😎

My short story 'The Devil's Waiting List' is published in the fiction anthology 'Stories from the Center of the World' by City Lights Books it was originally published by The Markaz Review مجلة المركز translated from Arabic to English by Rana Asfour ❤️

Happy Publication Day to editor Jordan Elgrably STORIES FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: New Middle East Fiction & contributors including Hanif Kureishi Sarah AlKahly-Mills 🇱🇧 سارة الكاحلي ميلز Ahmed Naji Abdellah Taïa MaluHalasa Farah Ahamed 🍉 Nektaria Anastasiadou BOOKFABULOUS grungyflaneur Natasha Tynes 🇯🇴🇺🇸

'But my mother is not seeing me, I cannot be with her. It is her living death, then, and the unfulfilled promise of a rendezvous in the photograph that haunt and intimidate.'

My latest in The Markaz Review مجلة المركز: Regarding the Photographs of Others themarkaz.org/regarding-the-…

Our new book from City Lights Books is on view Politics and Prose in DC w/ Hanif Kureishi Mai Al-Nakib Jordan Elgrably Omar El Akkad MaluHalasa et alia

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