Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by...

The Markaz Review is a literary arts review and nonprofit association that supports a deeper understanding of the Arab/Muslim world, in the Middle East, Africa and our diasporas in Europe and the Americas, with publishing activities and public programs.

This paper deals with the question of the perception of language in the twentyfirst century by secular representatives of the Maronite community. It is divided into two parts: first, the main aspects of the language role in identity construction (elaborated...

This paper discusses the Occitan language, a regional language in the south of France which covers regions from Bordeaux to Turin in Italy. This piece in particular goes over the education of France and the education of the Occitan language...

This study proposes to view the framework of peaceful coexistence through a perspective that discusses the three dimensions of the Kurdish question in depth. The first one is its historicality. Rooted as it is in nation-state building processes and struggles...

Drawing on research on narrative theory (Baker, 2006, 2014) in translation and interpretation studies, on the interdisciplinary relationship between translation studies and the visual and performing arts, and on the principal diversities between media discourse representations and aesthetic constructions on...

Abstract: This article’s reading of Paolo Portoghesi’s and Sami Mousawi’s Mosque and Islamic Centre in Rome (1975–95) offers an understanding of its visual program as one that can be productively framed under the concept of diaspora, a condition that evokes...

While he was struggling in loneliness, he suddenly found himself in a relentless emptiness. This The space was so big and full of light that for a moment he thought he was dead. without looking around He pinched himself first...