Radio Tabbouli

The Markaz Review presents a conversation on our May issue, TMR 41 FORGETTING, around the culture of memory and forgetting in the Arab world with four of the issue’s contributing writers: Mai Al-Nakib, Saleem Haddad, Asmaa Elgamal and Nabil Salih. Hosted and moderated by TMR senior editor Lina Mounzer.

Highly accomplished writers and public intellectuals Moustafa Bayoumi (from New York) and Hisham Bustani (from Amman) join TMR senior editor Lina Mounzer in Beirut, for a conversation post October 7, 2023.

In the 50th issue of The Markaz Review, RETURNING HOME is a compelling theme in both creative nonfiction and fiction. In “A Kashmiri in Cashmere,” Nafeesa Syeed hopes she’ll feel at home in a small Washington town east of Seattle, named after her native region, caught between India and Pakistan. In “Return to Ramallah,” a brief excerpt from playwright Betty Shamieh’s debut novel Too Soon, the narrator Arabella reflects on going home to the city her Palestinian American parents fled during the Nakba. The complete list of contributors includes Salar Abdoh, Batoul Ahmad, Yasmine Al Awa, Myriam Cohenca, Sophia Didinova, Karina El Helou, Lara Kassem, Ati Metwaly, Mai Al-Nakib, Raha Nik-Andish, Gabriel Polley, Sama Alshaibi, Betty Shamieh, Nafeesa Syeed and Abdallah Taïa.

This special episode of Radio Tabbouli brings you into the conversation we had following the publication of our October ‘24 issue, TMR 45 • FROM HERE ONE YEAR ON with Samina Najmi, Ziad Suidan and Lina Mounzer, with special guest Mona Seif. This discussion was about the year of war that began on October 7, 2023, which has since spread into Lebanon and Yemen, with further hostilities expected between Israel and Iran. TMR senior editor Lina Mounzer spoke with contributing writers Samina Najmi and Ziad Suidan about their pieces in the issue and their creative process. Mona Seif discussed the continued imprisonment in Cairo of her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah despite finishing his five year sentence.

Pour ce nouveau podcast TMR vous emmène au Festival Arabesques à la rencontre de l’envoûtante chanteuse marocaine OUM, auteure compositrice-interprète, qui nous présente son dernier album best of Dakchi.Nous évoquerons son parcours, son vaste univers aux multiples influences musicales ainsi que sa vision de l’identité et son amour pour le darija le dialecte marocain. EnglishIn this new podcast, TMR takes you to the Arabesques Festival to meet the captivating Moroccan singer-songwriter OUM, who presents her latest best-of album Dakchi.We talk about her career, her vast universe of musical influences, her vision of identity and her love of the Moroccan dialect darija.OUMhttps://oum.ma/https://www.youtube.com/c/OUMOFFICIALFestival Arabesques https://www.festivalarabesques.fr/Animatrice Sarah de The Markaz Review (TMR)Literature and Arts from the Center of the Worldhttps://themarkaz.org/https://linktr.ee/themarkazreview

On today’s episode on Radio Tabbouli, we invite you to join the conversation of our October ‘23 Book Club meeting on Khaled Khalifa’s novel, No One Prayed Over Their Graves which explores themes of love, death, and societal change in 19th-century Aleppo. The novel, set against the backdrop of Ottoman and French colonial influences, follows two friends whose lives are altered by a flood. Tune in to hear different perspectives on the novel’s symbolism as well as its exploration of societal traumas.The Markaz Review Book Club is hosted by TMR Managing Editor Rana Asfour. We meet online on the last Sunday of each month to discuss our latest title. Check out what we’re reading next and join our book club at https://www.themarkaz.org/book-club/. 

Pour ce quatrième podcast Radio Tabbouli, vous emmène aux portes ouvertes de l’atelier des artistes en exil en plein coeur de Paris. Nous avons eu le plaisir de rencontrer Hura Mirshekari chanteuse et plasticienne dont ses musiques nous font voyager dans la région aride du Sistan en Iran.00:00 Intro 01:04 Interview Hura Mirshekari26:42 Chanson Gharare Yar 27:35 Outro Pour en savoir plus sur l’atelier des artistes en exil : https://aa-e.orgAïka Ensemble – Del Katahgharare yar (قرار یار) compuser renaud satre singer sistani EnglishFor this fourth Radio Tabbouli podcast, TMR takes you to the open doors of the studio of artists in exile in the heart of Paris. We met the artist Hura Mirshekari, a singer and visual artist whose music takes us on a journey to the arid region of Sistan in Iran.Animatrice Sarah de The Markaz Review (TMR)Literature and Arts from the Center of the Worldhttps://themarkaz.org/https://linktr.ee/themarkazreview