Radio Tabbouli is The Markaz Review's podcast for discovering cultural news and meeting artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, academics, musicians and other personalities from the Middle East, North Africa and its diasporas.
Radio Tabbouli c’est le podcast de The Markaz Review pour découvrir l’actualité culturelle et rencontrer des artistes, des écrivains, des cinéastes, des acteurs, des universitaires, des musiciens et d'autres personnalités du Moyen-Orient, de l'Afrique du Nord et de ses diasporas.
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Oum Kalthoum, le 50e anniversaire avec l'animatrice invitée Mayssa Issa
Radio Tabbouli en français
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3 Jul 2025
Forgetting, an episode of Radio Tabbouli, from The Markaz Review
Lina Mounzer interviews Mai Al-Nakib, Saleem Haddad, Asmaa Elgamal, and Nabil Salih about the culture of memory and forgetting in the Arab world, exploring themes from The Markaz Review's May issue.
28 Jun 2025
Writing Across Boundaries, hosted by Malu Halasa, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review
Malu Halasa interviews MK Harb, Nektaria Anastasiadou, and Qais Akbar Omar about the art of fiction and challenges facing Middle Eastern writers in Western publishing.
27 Jun 2025
Public Intellectual, a conversation produced by The Markaz Review
Lina Mounzer interviews Moustafa Bayoumi and Hisham Bustani about the role of public intellectuals in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, offering insights into contemporary thought.
27 Jun 2025
Returning Home, the 50th issue of The Markaz Review (May 2025)
The Markaz Review's 50th issue, "Returning Home," features creative nonfiction and fiction exploring themes of home and identity with contributors Salar Abdoh, Batoul Ahmad, and others, offering diverse perspectives.
8 Nov 2024
A Year of War: A Conversation on Our Shared Future - EN
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.
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16 Oct 2024
OUM x Festival Arabesques - FR
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.
English
In 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.
OUM
https://oum.ma/
https://www.youtube.com/c/OUMOFFICIAL
Festival Arabesques
https://www.festivalarabesques.fr/
Animatrice Sarah de The Markaz Review (TMR)
Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
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10 Oct 2024
The Markaz Review Book Club Discusses Khaled Khalifa’s “No One Prayed Over Their Graves” - EN
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/ (https://www.themarkaz.org/book-club/).
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15 May 2024
Atelier des Artistes en Exil 2024 - FR
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 Mirshekari
26:42 Chanson Gharare Yar
27:35 Outro
Pour en savoir plus sur l’atelier des artistes en exil : https://aa-e.org
Aïka Ensemble – Del Katah (https://soundcloud.com/aika-ensemble/aika-ensemble-del-katah)
gharare yar (قرار یار) compuser renaud satre singer sistani
English
For 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 World
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30 Jan 2024
Who's Who? with the Editors at The Markaz Review - EN
In this first English episode of Radio Tabbouli, the editors of The Markaz Review (TMR) – Jordan Elgrably, Rana Asfour, Lina Mounzer, Malu Halasa and Mohammad Rabie – discuss their own stories, how they became writers, and what brought them to TMR together in Montpellier.
About The Markaz Review editors:
Jordan Elgrably - Editor in Chief & Art Director (Los Angeles/Montpellier)
A Franco-American and Moroccan journalist, editor, and fiction writer whose captivating work has graced prominent platforms in the U.S. and Europe.
Rana Asfour - Managing Editor (Amman/London)
A versatile writer and book reviewer whose literary insights have graced the pages of esteemed publications like The Guardian UK and The National/UAE. Beyond her prowess with the written word, Rana brings a dynamic background, having contributed to the realms of radio and TV in Amman.
Lina Mounzer - Senior Editor (Beirut)
A Lebanese writer and translator, whose literary prowess shines through her contributions to renowned publications such as The New York Times, The Paris Review, Freeman’s, The Washington Post, and The Baffler.
Malu Halasa - Literary Editor (London)
A distinguished London-based writer and editor. In her latest role as an editor, she presents "Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran" (Saqi 2023), adding another remarkable entry to her extensive body of work.
Mohammad Rabie - Arabic Editor (Cairo/Berlin)
Berlin-based writer and editor whose literary contributions extend to four novels in Arabic: "Kawkab Anbar," "Year of the Dragon," "Otared," and "History of the Gods of Egypt." The English translation of "Otared" by Robin Moger earned a nomination for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016.
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7 Dec 2023
Biennale des Arts de la Scène en Méditerranée 2023 - FR
Pour ce troisième podcast Radio Tabbouli, TMR vous emmène à la Biennale des Arts de la Scène en Méditerranée pour sa 2ème édition. Nous y rencontrerons deux femmes engagées, Giovanna Tanzarella et Simone Bitton, pour une Méditerranée ouverte où l'art, les discussions et les idées circulent.
Au menu : l’interview de Giovanna Tanzarella chercheuse et actrice de la société civile qui est intervenue dans le cadre d’une conférence sur le thème : L’art et la culture en Méditerranée : des liens solides entre deux rives ? Pour Giovanna "l’art et la culture sont le sang qui circule dans le corps des pays" . Nous continuerons avec la rencontre de la cinéaste Simone Bitton invitée à une projection-débat de son documentaire de 1991 Conversation Nord-Sud: une discussion entre Serge Daney et Elias Sanbar. Simone nous parle de son histoire en tant que juive marocaine, de ses engagements, de sa passion pour le cinéma et de l’indépendance de ses opinions.
English
For this third episode of the Radio Tabbouli podcast, TMR takes you to the 2nd Biennial of Performing Arts in the Mediterranean. Here, we meet two women who are committed to an open Mediterranean in which art, discussion and ideas circulate: Giovanna Tanzarella and Simone Bitton.
On the menu: an interview with Giovanna Tanzarella, researcher and civil society actress, who was invited to speak at a conference on the theme: "Art and Culture in the Mediterranean: Strong Links between Two Shores?" For Giovanna, "art and culture are the blood that circulates in the bodies of countries." In the second part of the episode, we meet filmmaker Simone Bitton, who has been invited to the event for a screening of her 1991 documentary, "Conversation Nord-Sud: a discussion between Serge Daney and Elias Sanbar.” Simone discusses her history as a Moroccan Jew, her commitments, her passion for cinema and the independence of her opinions.
03:57 Interview Giovanna Tanzarella
14:45 Interview Simone Bitton
Biennale des Arts de la Scène en Méditerranée
https://www.13vents.fr/biennale-des-arts-de-la-scene-en-mediterranee-3/
Animatrice Sarah de The Markaz Review (TMR)
Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
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