The Markaz Review is open for submission on this theme:
GAZA
- Call for Submissions, Pub. Date 15 July 2021
No place is safe in Gaza but everyone dreams of better tomorrows—every Gazan is looking for the sky and access to the sea. As the late Anthony Bourdain once remarked, “The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity.” Make no mistake— Gaza is Palestine and the subject of TMR’s July 2021 issue.
The siege of Gaza is the longest siege of a city or a major land area in modern history. Even the worst, most brutal sieges of the 20th century, in Madrid and Leningrad, lasted less than three years, while the siege of Sarajevo stretched on for four. Meanwhile Gaza struggles into its 14th year, often without electricity, sanitation and proper food and medical supplies, even in the face of Covid. In March of 2018, desperate for major relief, Gazans organized the Great March of Return, an organic protest movement along the barrier fence with Israel that lasted until December of the following year; while barely getting the world’s attention, thousands of Gazans were injured by Israeli sniper fire, and hundreds were killed.
As we write, Gazans are waiting for the next war. It could come tomorrow, next week, or next year. No one knows when, but dread remains in the air the people breathe — their fear strangely co-existing with hope — hope that it will be possible to be a human being and a Palestinian at the same time.
TMR seeks essays, short stories, poetry, videos, podcasts and art that helps us think more clearly about Gaza and see Gazans as Palestinians and as a people fighting for freedom, the freedom we all deserve.
Please submit your query to editor-at-the-markaz no later than June 30th. The deadline for copy is July 10, 2021:
https://themarkaz.org/submissions
Submissions range from 750 to 3,000 words, but please query with a one- or two-paragraph pitch, writing to editor@themarkaz.org.
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