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I ran into Ashura celebrations in London today, in Piccadilly. Then I heard about this Ashura celebration in Karaj, Iran, with young women who marched with no headscarves. They were questioned by the police. rferl.org/a/iran-ashura-…

One week before @TheMarkazReview's double literary issue with short stories and creative nonfiction from Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, Afghanistan, Iran, Algeria + memoir, diaries & graphic novels. Until then, go out: themarkaz.org/world-picks-fr…

Arid MENA, its natural resources and sun sucked up by the West, read Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy & Climate Justice in the Arab Region by Hamza Hamouchene @BenToumert & @KatieSandwell @PlutoPress, reviewed by Richard Lim @TheMarkazReview : themarkaz.org/the-battle-for…

@MiddleEastInst @shiva_khademi This looks like such a cool exhibition with women photographers from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Wish I was in DC. Shiva Khademi's series The Smarties an eye-opener for anyone who has an interest WLF and Iran.

The work of Shiva Khademi (@shiva_khademi) is one of ten collections by women artists featured in The Middle East Institute’s exhibition “Louder Than Hearts: Women Photographers from the Arab World and Iran”.

Writers, artists, translators, cartoonists, editors in Iran & elsewhere all thrilled that our Woman Life Freedom anthology has been included in the 2024 shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing @Lighthousebks, @SaqiBooks. breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/bre…

Gaza, censorship, revolution, Syria, Arab Shakespeare on & off stage will be covered in tomorrow's @TheMarkazReview roundtable discussion on Middle Eastern theater at home & in the diaspora. Hosted by Iraqi playwright Hassan @abdulrazzak: themarkaz.org/event/tmr-42-t…

@oliviasnaije Much that's being written and published today about Gaza is misdirection. Isabella Hamad is an important, critical voice that activists and people sitting on the fence cannot ignore.

Isabella Hamad on the verbal contortions many “writers have gone through to avoid engaging with the gravity of Israel’s assault on Gaza—one of the most brutal, punitive military campaigns in modern history” archive.is/iyfT8

What it's like to be on stage hijab-less & breaking barriers in Tehran. In @TheMarkazReview theatre issue, #WomanLifeFreedom, #MahsaAmini: themarkaz.org/nothing-is-nor…

Our anthology, Woman Life Freedom: Voices & Art from the Women's Protests in Iran made the shortlist for the 2024 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Thanks to #WomanLifeFreedom, #MahsaAmini, @KhiabanTribune. Way to go @SaqiBooks: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com

Forget about St. Louis, meet me in Venice.

@TheMarkazReview previews Mid East films in 2024 @hrwfilmfestival: Mediha @MedihaFilm; Inshallah a Boy @rulanasser @FilmJordan; and Revolution on Canvas re Nicky Nodjoumi's missing 1979 paintings in Revolution on Canvas: themarkaz.org/human-rights-f…

@themarkazreview's Monday edition on Middle East film: Germany sacrifices truth and social realism to WWII guilt and accuses joint-Israeli & Palestinian production No Man's Land of antisemitism. Read Viola Shafik in themarkaz.org/israeli-palest… #Berlinale #berlinale2024 #Palestine

Interested in how surveillance changed photography in Iran, subaltern perspectives in art, and edgy Persian visual arts? Join Sahar Saki, Vali Mahlouji @valimahlouji and myself tomorrow at SOAS for an illustrated lecture & discussion. @LinaKhatibUK @themarkazreview @SaqiBooks

Today's Monday edition of @markazreview also features a critical art piece by West Bank curator Nadine @aranki_n on the resurgence of the Palestinian posters. themarkaz.org/new-palestinia… #StrikeForPalestine #Art #Palestine #Gallery #Zawyeh

5th installment of Hossam Madhoun's Messages from Gaza NOW. Moving, frightening, can't turn away from, the theater-maker tells it like it is from this brutal war. People are starving; the death toll rising. Is anyone out there listening or cares? themarkaz.org/messages-from-…

On #WomanLifeFreedom, protest art, graffiti @KhiabanTribuine & surveillance in Iran, the art of anthologizing and labels, with the ever inquiring @dalchodha for @tenderBOOKS Chat instagram.com/p/CzY1RBHMR5C/…

@CityLightsBooks Zoom event for #WomanLifeFreedom anthology @SaqiBooks tonight at 6pm PST, 9pm EST, 2am GMT and 3am CET. With special guest A Nearby Country Called Love novelist @AbdohSalar and @TheMarkazReview's editor Jordan Elgrably. Register: citylights.com/events/malu-ha…

Hear women's voices from Iran like you've never heard them before. Woman Life Freedom anthology @SaqiBooks #womenlifefreedom finally available in the US. Zoom into the book launch @CityLightsBooks in San Francisco tomorrow night. youtube.com/watch?v=gY2Bw7…

@TheMarkazReview's Mischa Geracoulis @MGeracoulis reviews Dongola Limited Editions @dongolabooks: Notes on Formation, about Jordanian architect Ammar Khammash, themarkaz.org/ammar-khammash…

Earthquakes too, not just war, devastate cities. Short story by @SalahBadis2 recalls the 2003 quake along the coast east of Algiers and the ghostly detritus of lost, forgotten lives, in @TheMarkazReview's architect issue: themarkaz.org/before-the-ear…