<em>My Uncle Jamshid</em>—excerpted from Bachtyar Ali’s novel

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The Impossible Return: A Conversation with Tareq Baconi

A conversation between writers unfolds into a meditation on exile, memory, and how history inhabits our most private lives.

10 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad, Tareq Baconi

Assailed and Abandoned in the Levant

A columnist turns her keen eye to the almost absurd evolution of the framework hammered out between Lebanon and US-backed Israel.

10 JULY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour

The Passive Voice of Light: On Grief and Imperial Grammar

A Palestinian teacher remembers the sister who taught her the passive voice, not knowing that grammar would be used to erase her.

10 JULY 2026 • By Hanan Habashi

Are the “Birth Pangs” of a New Middle East Finally Here?

A new Middle East is visible through the debris, but not the one dearly wanted by the United States and Israel.

26 JUNE 2026 • By Amal Ghandour

Palestine is the World in its Future Tense

The 61st Venice Biennale is one of many cultural institutions beginning to crack under the weight of their own hypocrisy over the Gaza genocide.

26 JUNE 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh

A Conversation in the Library—Centuries in the Making

An exploration of how an Ottoman slave became the mother of a library on a Greek island — and what her descendants did with it.

26 JUNE 2026 • By Jacob Wirtschafter

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TMR 60 HAWAR: THE KURDISH ISSUE

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Hawar—A Cry for Kurdistan

TMR guest editor Aryan Omar Hassan shares the inspiration for the title of our newest issue, and his experiences in the Kurdish diaspora.

By Aryan Omar Hassan
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“The Great Mother’s Vigil”—fiction

After a grieving mother is gunned down, seven children become the custodians of a village’s shattered memory.

By Hoshang Waziri, Hassan Abdulrazzak
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Zehra Doğan, Kurdish Resistance Artist

Much of Doğan's groundbreaking art was created in prison out of the materials at hand: hair, coffee, blood.

By Rojda Idil Arslan

Fiction

“Sara”—a short story

A Palestinian writer dissects the exquisite loneliness of losing one's mother tongue.

6 MARCH 2026 • By Majd Aburrub

“Words That Don’t Sink”—a short story

A simple debate over a spoon opens a space in which a group of Syrian migrants reclaim an identity on the brink of erasure.

6 MARCH 2026 • By Zeinab Ghassan Khaddour

Essays

The Souls of War Folk

The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a speech in Munich.

3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu

“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting political and social landscape.

3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi

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