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 BaconiA 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 GhandourA 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 HabashiA 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 GhandourThe 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 DabbaghAn 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 WirtschafterTMR 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 HassanAfter a grieving mother is gunned down, seven children become the custodians of a village’s shattered memory.
By Hoshang Waziri, Hassan AbdulrazzakMuch of Doğan's groundbreaking art was created in prison out of the materials at hand: hair, coffee, blood.
By Rojda Idil ArslanA Palestinian writer dissects the exquisite loneliness of losing one's mother tongue.
6 MARCH 2026 • By Majd AburrubA 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 KhaddourThe 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 ÇubukçuA 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 KhosraviThree new pieces of SWANA literature, criticism and art every Friday-direct.