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The Beirut-Paris Express: Yasmine Hamdan on Tour

Homeland Elegies

<strong>Jordan Elgrably is the Editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://themarkaz.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">The Markaz Review</a>. He's at work on a novel about Syrian refugees, and a collection of interviews with novelists among whom are James Baldwin, Nadine Gordimer, and Milan Kundera. He divides his time between California and Montpellier, France.</strong>

Jordan Elgrably

Trump Derangement Syndrome, or How I Learned to Love America: On Ayad Akhtar’s “Homeland Elegies”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Age of Disenchantments

Land of Poets and Bones: Spain’s Desmemoria

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

<p>"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn</p>

Biography &amp; Autobiography

When All Else Fails

When We Were Arabs

Septemberland, How to Find Your Way in a Post-9/11 Dystopian World

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Native Believer

Are Muslims the New Blacks? “Native Believer” Rips Open the Post-9/11 World

Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont

Los Angeles, Fresno, and the Misanthrope

Jordan Elgrably is the Editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://themarkaz.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">The Markaz Review</a>. He's at work on a novel about Syrian refugees, and a collection of interviews with novelists among whom are James Baldwin, Nadine Gordimer, and Milan Kundera. He divides his time between California and Montpellier, France.