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Jordan Elgrably

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Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Editor-in-chief @TheMarkazReview

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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Amigos, shabab, join us tomorrow night at Watermelon Books LA, where I present 3 books in a program entitled "Palestine is the Center of the World" + food and live music with Dimitris Mahlis. holyground.us/products/fri...
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Friday, August 28th at 7:30:pm: Palestine is the Center of the World
Friday, August 28th from 7:30pm - 9:30pm When we say, “Palestine is the center of the world,” we mean Palestine has become a world rallying cry against war, occupation, apartheid, and a call for freed...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dear readers, my @CityLightsBooks collection of Middle Eastern short stories just appeared in Brazil!
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Histórias do centro do mundo - Livro - Cosac
Histórias do centro do mundo – coletânea de 25 contos de autores consagrados e emergentes do Oriente Médio e do Norte da África – surpreende pela qualidade literária de uma região frequentemente perce...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Aug will be my first return to Los Angeles since my City Lights book came out two summers ago, during which time I'll have a chance to present our Palestine book, SUMUD, and our "best of" Markaz anthology. themarkaz.org/event/waterm...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I will begin posting new writing and travel alerts. Stay tuned next for a Los Angeles appearance at Watermelon Books on the 28th of August!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/06/2026
‘In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and those who believed it would inevitably lead to the country’s destruction. Then, as now, Israel identified that split and widened it.’ Zain Samir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Zain Samir · War on the Shia: In Lebanon
In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I haven't been active on social media for a long while (Musk and company are driving me and millions of others away), but Blue Sky inspires me to come back. Fellow writers, please follow me. @selmadabbagh.bsky.social @vjumamel.bsky.social @warghetti.bsky.social @roxanasaberi.bsky.social
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
On Thursday, I passed the torch (or the lantern as it happens) to a new editor-in-chief, Lina Mounzer, formerly our senior editor in Beirut. Coincidentally, the first issue @markaz-review.bsky.social published was all about #BEIRUT. Welcome, Lina!
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
SAVE THE DATE: I'll be joining Lara Vergnaud & Jadd Hilal at the Comédie du Livre, Montpellier, for this public conversation (en français). Fri 22 May, 15:30: themarkaz.org/event/quelle...
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Quelle place pour la littérature en temps de guerre ?
Le 22 mai à Montpellier, The Markaz Review débat de la place de la littérature en temps de guerre, avec Jadd Hilal, Jordan Elgrably et Lara Vergnaud.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What should we do when every last possible good feeling we have has turned to ash? In her new "Dear Souseh" column, TMR Senior Editor Lina Mounzer gives voice to the feelings so many of us hold close. Out this Friday. x.com/TheMarkazRev...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yesterday, @nytimes wrote about the life and romance of Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
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A Turkish Love Story, With Prison, Poetry and an Airplane Exploit
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We interviewed Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak last fall: themarkaz.org/ilhan-sami-c...
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İlhan Sami Çomak: 3 Poems and an Interview
An interview with former prisoner and Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak, on the eve of the Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
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Nojang Khatami @nojangkhatami.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
themarkaz.org/iranian-visi... In this piece, I write that if the democratic struggles of Iranians are to stay alive, even in the bleakest of circumstances, collective creativity and memory are vital. A pleasure to work with @markaz-review.bsky.social and @jordanelgrably.bsky.social to amplify this
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Iranian Visions of Democracy from the Ruins
Iranians emerging from the rubble of war have their own struggle ahead. But the lessons travel: resistance has to be preserved.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Message from our editors 💬 The Markaz Review has featured nearly 200 writers from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) this year—and over 1,000 voices since our founding. Help us keep publishing bold, independent work.​ Donate: bit.ly/donatetmr
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Little-known history about one of my favorite writers (among the dozens I've interviewed): themarkaz.org/the-friend-o...
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The Friend of the Fallen: James Baldwin in Istanbul
James Baldwin's Turkish exile, a lesser-told chapter in his life, offered safety, privacy, and most importantly, a creative rebirth.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Under Trump, the United States is becoming a Banana Republic. We should insure that Trump and his flunkies are arrested and prosecuted, as soon as possible. open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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America is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🖋️ “Silence is Not the Way” gathers Arab writers refusing complicity — confronting genocide and affirming that literature must not remain neutral. @jordanelgrably.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-no...
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🖋️ “Silence is Not the Way” gathers Arab writers refusing complicity — confronting genocide and affirming that literature must not remain neutral. @jordanelgrably.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/silence-is-n...
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“Silence is Not the Way”—Arab Writers Against Israel’s Genocide
When one poet declines to participate on the international stage in Edinburgh, supporters of Palestinian human rights are in a quandary.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Great #ziadrahbani hommage in @markaz-review.bsky.social‬ by Diran Mardirian from the great #ChicoRecords shop in Beirut, founded by his dad who also set up the #Zida label w/ Ziad in the '70s! themarkaz.org/ziad-rahbani...
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Ziad Rahbani: The Making of a Lebanese Jazz Legend
A look at Ziad Rahbani's life and legacy, and the man who first introduced him to the jazz sound that transformed Lebanon's musical landscape.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Huge congrats to my friend Mischa Geracoulis on her new book and the review in #Hyperallergic ! hyperallergic.com/1021592/fram...
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Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation
The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/07/2025
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
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Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment
Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
ARE YOU NOT SICK TO DEATH OF OUR GOVERNMENTS' INACTION WHEN PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN GAZA? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO, TAKE UP ARMS? BOMB ISRAEL TO MAKE THEM STOP THIS CRUEL WAR CRIME? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The NYT should have published this a year ago. It came out today, but better late than never. How will the west react? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Things might not be so far gone for US democracy if #HamidDabashi is right about the trend that would elect #ZohranMamdani www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-...
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Why is The New York Times so afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
The liberal establishment's war on the New York City mayoral candidate reflects panic over a growing left challenge to Zionist orthodoxy and the mainstreaming of Palestine solidarity
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
SOMETHING IS DEEPLY WRONG when the UK/US/EU talk about human rights EXCEPT FOR PALESTINIANS. This is wrong. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...
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UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide
Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism
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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I wrote about crying while reading a translators’ note. @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @jordanelgrably.bsky.social
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In Nasser Rabah’s Poetry, تقول القصيدة كلمتها
Nasser Rabah and other poets of Gaza are still writing — still sending their poems to us, because Palestine is literature.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@rezaian.bsky.social fyi themarkaz.org/missiles-and...
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Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the "12-Day War"
A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Tune into 3 Arab public intellectuals, Moustafa & Hisham Bustani, moderated by Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social : open.spotify.com/episode/3Jug...
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Public Intellectual, a conversation produced by The Markaz Review
Radio Tabbouli · Episode
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📖 [POETRY MARKAZ] Jawdat Fakhreddine’s “Bilād” is a haunting ode to lost homelands and resistance, bridging Arabic literary tradition and today’s struggles. 🔗 Read the piece + 3 translated poems: bit.ly/jawdat-fakred... #TMRPoetry #ArabicPoetry
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Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems
A major name in Arabic poetry, Jawdat Fakhreddine establishes a revolutionary dialogue between international values and the Arabic tradition.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@jordanelgrably.bsky.social We invite you to read today's TMR Weekly stories. Start with our correspondent from Tehran. themarkaz.org/tmr-weekly/
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Curious what life is like today in Tehran? themarkaz.org/missiles-and... @warghetti.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the "12-Day War"
A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
My colleagues @markaz-review.bsky.social have published a new issue today, entitled MEZZE. Who's hungry? themarkaz.org/category/tmr...
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Three of us editors from The Markaz Review gave a creative writing workshop all day Saturday in London in the Shubbak Festival: full house! Query us, editors-at-themarkaz.org
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Montpellier's a great city, always hopping. Gotta love the annual book fest Comédie du Livre, but also the #FestivalArabesque and #CINEMED and so much more.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What's life like in San Francisco these days? Here's what one former San Franciscan, now ensconced in Valencia, Spain, has to say on the subject: medium.com/city-life/si...
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Silicon Valley Killed San Francisco — It’s Over
After four months in Spain, I came back to find my favorite US city hollowed out — quiet, expensive, and optimized to death.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today is the 77th commemoration of the Nabka, the day that #Palestinians know as the catastrophe. The Markaz Review editors have put together this book list. Please share it widely: themarkaz.org/editors-2025...
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Editors' 2025 Palestinian Lit List
May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I have more respect now for Ben Affleck, although I disagreed with some of the ideology behind his film "Argo"; certainly Sam Harris is a Zionist and an anti-Muslim bigot. x.com/zei_squirrel...
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☀️👀 on X: "Ben Affleck calls out the depraved racist Islamophobia of genocidal Zionists like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, and explains how this dehumanization is used to justify the mass slaughter and rape of Arabs and Muslims, as is happening now with Palestinians https://t.co/WIyE0nCIwH" / X
Ben Affleck calls out the depraved racist Islamophobia of genocidal Zionists like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, and explains how this dehumanization is used to justify the mass slaughter and rape of Arabs and Muslims, as is happening now with Palestinians https://t.co/WIyE0nCIwH
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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
this is absolutely horrifying. every single American should be speaking out against what’s happening in neighborhoods & cities across the country right now
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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
On this #WorldPressFreedomDay I’m thinking of the 210+ Palestinian journalists who’ve been killed by Israel in the past year & a half—and how deeply sad it is that, as our western media continues to look away, the number pub’d below (in April) is already out of date💔
Image featuring 210 journalists who have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thank you, Josep Borrell. But why couldn't you say this earlier? Why hasn't the EU put the brakes on arms sales to Israel? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is FASCISM AT WORK — they have no warrant, they don't give their names, they don't say why they are taking the woman off the street, what they're charging her with. Nada. No habeas corpus = tyranny.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🎨 [TMR 50 • RETURNING HOME] A tribute to Lebanese painter & poet Abdel Hamid Baalbaki at Sursock Museum honors his vision of art for the people & his love for South Lebanon—now scarred by war. 🔗 Read Karina El Helou’s featured artist highlight: themarkaz.org/going-...
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Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki
The Sursock Museum in Beirut presents "Ode to the South," a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid Baalbaki, 1940-2013.
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 10/05/2025
No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Consider this your personal invitation to visit my website: jordanelgrably.com
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My heartfelt congrats to poet Mosab Abu Toha on his Pulitzer win, bringing more needed attention to #Gaza: themarkaz.org/poet-mosab-a...
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Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza
Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Meet the editor-in-chief of @markaz-review.bsky.social @jordanelgrably.bsky.social at the Comédie du Livre and discover his books “Stories from the Center of the World” and “Sumūd”. Presentation in English. #ComédieDuLivre #Montpellier #MiddleEastFiction #MeetTheAuthor
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Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My longtime pal Ammiel Alcalay has understood exactly what all of us are facing, or at least, those who love freedom and demand justice: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/viet...
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Like Vietnam, Israel's war on Gaza is now a global war on resistance
The Trump administration is shredding the Constitution to appease Tel Aviv, while the Gaza genocide continues unchecked
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In “An Immigrant in America: ‘The Palace of Forty Pillars,’” Sean Casey reviews Armen Davoudian’s debut poetry collection where themes of exile, queerness, and dual identity unfold through elegant sonnets that bridge Iran and America. 🔗 Full book review: bit.ly/an-immigrant...
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An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars
A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as an immigrant in America.
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
ننشر مقتطفًا من رواية «صلاة القلق»، الفائزة بالجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية 2025، حيث يروي محمد سمير ندا «بأسلوب فانتازي يمزج التاريخ بالخيال، يسخر من الحقائق» عن عهد الرئيس الراحل جمال عبد الناصر. themarkaz.org/salatalqalaq/ #صلاة_القلق #الجائزة_العالمية_للرواية_العربية #محمد_سمير_ندا
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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🗓️ [SAVE THE DATE] This SUNDAY, April 27th at 1pm EST: join us online to dive into Youssef Rakha’s latest novel, “The Dissenters.” Hosted by @bookfabulous.bsky.social. 🎟️ Don’t miss out, sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #themarkazreview #tmrbookclub #books #bookclub #onlineevent
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