A TMR columnist examines a historical record marked by missteps and false victories in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
9 OCTOBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Youssef Rakha's novel asks big existential questions like “What should contemporary Islam look like?” but offers no easy answers.
9 OCTOBER 2026 • By Nour Eldin H.
Writer Karim Kattan explores how love might be narrated in a manner that overcomes subjugation, suppression, and extermination.
9 OCTOBER 2026 • By Gaar Adams
A new podcast asks: how does a seemingly ordinary person come to accommodate herself to extraordinary evil?
2 OCTOBER 2026 • By Anas Tareef
Poet Fady Joudah refuses the familiar grammar of witnessing, rendering Palestinian life as a living archive of intimacy and agency.
2 OCTOBER 2026 • By Issam Zineh
A psychoanalyst talks about the psychic terrain of struggle and the making of her new book, From the Clinic to the Streets.
2 OCTOBER 2026 • By Sarah Aziza
TMR’s Literary Editor reflects on what created the Anthropocene—capitalism, colonialism, ecocide—and the possibility of undoing it.
By Abdelrahman ElGendy
The human will toward life meets the inhuman algorithms hunting people down like prey in Israel's ravaging of Lebanon.
By Cynthia Kreichati
A self-described “dystopian artist” creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.
By Nour Annan
A grief-stricken man returns to his hometown and reckons with his relationship to faith, community, and love.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Barâa Arar
As the U.S. bombs Iran, a man's obsessions range from the expected to the absurd in the long wait for a delivery.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Shahab Eddin Pakbeen
A young Kurdish writer grapples with what it means to exist outside the politics of appeal and visibility.
7 AUGUST 2026 • By Aline Jabbari
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
Three new pieces of SWANA literature, criticism and art every Friday-direct.
