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Youssra El Hawary’s Taraddud—Sound as Survival

In Egypt where nationalist anthems are weaponized and satire becomes grounds for persecution, Taraddud stands as an act of survival.

17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Salma Harland

In Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, Truth is Revolutionary

Bombed streets and Palestinian suffering contrast with Orwell’s language, showing how terms like “security operations” sanitize violence.

17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko

A Love Letter to the Ghosts of Armenian Cinema

Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.

17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty

On Bilgé, Time Arrows, and the Indigenous Turn

In the Global South, abstraction connects with modernism and evades censorship. Could it be a powerful way to explore deep time and memory?

10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Making Art During a Genocide

An artist is unable to go on with life and work as usual, while Israelis are committed to a campaign of murder and mayhem against Palestinians.

10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca

The War on Palestinians Didn’t Start on October 7

Two years into the crushing genocide in Gaza, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi recalls her displacements and the significance of writing for her people.

10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
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3 October 2025 • By Rana Asfour

Why FRIENDSHIP?

TMR's October issue examines the multifaceted nature of friendship — intimate or communal, joyful or bittersweet.

  • CENTERPIECE

You Want Your Friends to See Who You Really Are

A writer confronts the harsh reality of performative acceptance versus true solidarity as her community's struggles become inconvenient.

3 October 2025 • By Christina Adranly
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Lamia Fakhoury: Holding Space and Working Together

TMR's editor interviews Jordanian fine artist Lamia Fakhoury on her circuitous journey to devoting herself full-time as a sculptor.

3 October 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Poetry

Poet Christopher Merrill on Flares, a book of prose poems.

Christopher Merrill "is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation."—W. S. Merwin

31 AUGUST 2025 • By Christopher Merrill

Mai Serhan on the poems in CAIRO: the undelivered letters

Mai Serhan is a Palestinian-Egyptian poet, writer, editor and translator. She is the author of, CAIRO: the undelivered letters and other titles.

31 AUGUST 2025 • By Mai Serhan

Column

Chutzpah! Observations On Trump’s Peace Plan

Amal Ghandour helps parse these Orwellian times from the perspective of an Arab writer living between Beirut, Amman and the west.

10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour

Longing for Love in a Time of Genocide

A woman living in the capital of the United States during fascism and genocide nonetheless yearns for a progressive partner.

26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Souseh

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