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Gaza, Sudan, Israel/Palestine Documentaries Show in Thessaloniki
Three documentaries screened in Thessaloniki shed light on conflicts often absent from international media headlines.
April World Picks from the Editors
Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its significance has shifted considerably.
Insurrection of the Spirit: Algeria’s Resistance Poet Anna Gréki
Gréki’s poetry expresses her deep love for Algeria while also serving as a powerful tribute to resistance against colonialism.
TMR 49 • LOVE, WAR & RESISTANCE
Centerpiece
Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows
From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.
Featured Artist
Mous Lamrabat: Featured Artist
In his latest solo exhibition, Mous Lamrabat delves deep into the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity and love.
Poetry Markaz
Irma Pineda: Two Poems in Spanish, Zapotec and English
Irma Pineda's poems evoke tragedy and celebrate the ways in which the human is built from dream, tradition, and nature.
Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems
Celebrated Indian poet Sonnet Mondal presents work from his Copper Coin collection "An Afternoon in My Mind."
TMR Interviews
The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen
Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50…
Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza
A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to the west's racism and indifference.
Latest Essays & Fiction
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its significance has shifted considerably.
Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows
From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.
“The Monster Is Gone”—a story by Anna Lekas Miller
How do you talk about war and exile with your child, when all you want to do is protect him from the truth?
A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees
The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams of her homeland.
Heartbreak and Commemoration in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's latest onslaught.
Manifesto of Love & Revolution
Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere, many others shall take shape elsewhere.