“The Monster Is Gone”—a story by Anna Lekas Miller

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Three stories published every Friday

Apples and Oranges, or Why the US Supports Israel

Why does the U.S. continue funding Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of international condemnation?

3 APRIL 2026 • By Jason Hickel

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

A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

No one in Lebanon is ever out of the fray, not even those who are very far away from burning neighborhoods and landscapes.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour

Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive dissonance that results.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Lina Mounzer

Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky on Migrants, Racism, and Hope

An unorthodox family forged by crisis, three African women living together in Tunis, shelters a young shipwreck survivor.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Karim Goury
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6 March 2026 • By Lara Vergnaud

Of Mother Tongues and Sleeping Orchids

Mother tongues, endlessly chimeric, endlessly beguiling, can become both dangerous baggage and precious commodity.

  • CENTERPIECE

Ojalá: Toward an Illiteracy of Liberation

In the wake of Gaza genocide, a Palestinian American loses her words — until she finds her way back to language in another tongue.

6 March 2026 • By Sarah Aziza
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Universal Words, the Art of Mariem Abutaleb

In which a young artist goes beyond words, beyond language, to create meaning with signs and symbols of her own creation.

6 March 2026 • By Naima Morelli
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Poetry

“How to Erase an Armenian Accent in Junior High”

In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.

27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Shahé Mankerian

Shira Wolfe on Jugoslovenska Kinoteka

Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade...

1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Shira Wolfe

Columns

A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

No one in Lebanon is ever out of the fray, not even those who are very far away from burning neighborhoods and landscapes.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour

Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive dissonance that results.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Lina Mounzer

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