Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Editor-in-chief @TheMarkazReviewhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mp7iq7dzpk22I haven't been active on social media for a long while (Musk and company are driving me and millions of others away), but Blue Sky inspires me to come back. Fellow writers, please follow me. @selmadabbagh.bsky.social @vjumamel.bsky.social @warghetti.bsky.social @roxanasaberi.bsky.social26 Jun 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7iq7dzpk22https://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mo5zch76f22tOn Thursday, I passed the torch (or the lantern as it happens) to a new editor-in-chief, Lina Mounzer, formerly our senior editor in Beirut. Coincidentally, the first issue @markaz-review.bsky.social published was all about #BEIRUT. Welcome, Lina!13 Jun 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5zch76f22thttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mknxmz6xps2mSAVE THE DATE: I'll be joining Lara Vergnaud & Jadd Hilal at the Comédie du Livre, Montpellier, for this public conversation (en français). Fri 22 May, 15:30: https://themarkaz.org/event/quelle-place-pour-la-litterature-en-temps-de-guerre/29 Apr 2026 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknxmz6xps2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mk4rhal27c2qWhat should we do when every last possible good feeling we have has turned to ash? In her new "Dear Souseh" column, TMR Senior Editor Lina Mounzer gives voice to the feelings so many of us hold close. Out this Friday. https://x.com/TheMarkazReview/status/204696733795424258723 Apr 2026 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4rhal27c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mk4restatc2qYesterday, @nytimes wrote about the life and romance of Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/turkey-kurdish-poet-comak.html23 Apr 2026 00:36 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4restatc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mk4rcxedbk2qWe interviewed Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak last fall: https://themarkaz.org/ilhan-sami-comak-3-poems-and-an-interview/23 Apr 2026 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4rcxedbk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3mae5nyz5b22bLittle-known history about one of my favorite writers (among the dozens I've interviewed): https://themarkaz.org/the-friend-of-the-fallen-james-baldwin-in-istanbul/19 Dec 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mae5nyz5b22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3m5bzr6lcik2mUnder Trump, the United States is becoming a Banana Republic. We should insure that Trump and his flunkies are arrested and prosecuted, as soon as possible. https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/america-is-a-banana-republic?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email10 Nov 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5bzr6lcik2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lw2lk33zjk2jGreat #ziadrahbani hommage in @markaz-review.bsky.social‬ by Diran Mardirian from the great #ChicoRecords shop in Beirut, founded by his dad who also set up the #Zida label w/ Ziad in the '70s! https://themarkaz.org/ziad-rahbani-the-making-of-a-lebanese-jazz-legend/10 Aug 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw2lk33zjk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lv6hjcqcws2qHuge congrats to my friend Mischa Geracoulis on her new book and the review in #Hyperallergic ! https://hyperallergic.com/1021592/framing-heritage-destruction-as-a-human-rights-violation-mischa-geracoulis/30 Jul 2025 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv6hjcqcws2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3luq5xqbwbk2sARE YOU NOT SICK TO DEATH OF OUR GOVERNMENTS' INACTION WHEN PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN GAZA? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO, TAKE UP ARMS? BOMB ISRAEL TO MAKE THEM STOP THIS CRUEL WAR CRIME? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/24/gaza-starvation-israel-restrictions/24 Jul 2025 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3luq5xqbwbk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3ltzate3jss2aThe NYT should have published this a year ago. It came out today, but better late than never. How will the west react? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html15 Jul 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzate3jss2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3ltkduhw2dk2kThings might not be so far gone for US democracy if #HamidDabashi is right about the trend that would elect #ZohranMamdani https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-new-york-times-so-afraid-zohran-mamdani09 Jul 2025 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltkduhw2dk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3ltcwsv7etk2nSOMETHING IS DEEPLY WRONG when the UK/US/EU talk about human rights EXCEPT FOR PALESTINIANS. This is wrong. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arrests-83-year-old-priest-backing-palestine-action-and-condemning-israels-genocide-gaza06 Jul 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltcwsv7etk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lslxtdt4b223@rezaian.bsky.social fyi https://themarkaz.org/missiles-and-rhetoric-a-tehrani-reflects-on-the-12-day-war/27 Jun 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslxtdt4b223https://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lslsx3jll223Tune into 3 Arab public intellectuals, Moustafa & Hisham Bustani, moderated by Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social : https://open.spotify.com/episode/3JugrEqwZOVnCL1kEboDKs27 Jun 2025 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslsx3jll223https://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lslme3yibs23Curious what life is like today in Tehran? https://themarkaz.org/missiles-and-rhetoric-a-tehrani-reflects-on-the-12-day-war/ @warghetti.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social27 Jun 2025 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslme3yibs23https://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lqx7ny7vgc2qMy colleagues @markaz-review.bsky.social have published a new issue today, entitled MEZZE. Who's hungry? https://themarkaz.org/category/tmr-51-mezze/06 Jun 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqx7ny7vgc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lqk6es3duk2dThree of us editors from The Markaz Review gave a creative writing workshop all day Saturday in London in the Shubbak Festival: full house! Query us, editors-at-themarkaz.org01 Jun 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqk6es3duk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jordanelgrably.bsky.social/post/3lpmdld4mgk2qMontpellier's a great city, always hopping. Gotta love the annual book fest Comédie du Livre, but also the #FestivalArabesque and #CINEMED and so much more.20 May 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:4it72gbtysuivgomrigbnufk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpmdld4mgk2q