Thinking about icons past and present, Amal Ghandour remembers Egypt's "Star of the East" on the 50th anniversary of her death.
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
To understand Palestine, argues writer-director Annemarie Jacir, you have to go back to the first decades of the 20th century.
31 OCTOBER 2025 • By Hadani Ditmars
Annemarie Jacir’s new film is big-tent entertainment, accented by a critical history of Anglo-Zionist collusion between the wars.
31 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Online panel discussions, films, exhibitions, books and more … TMR World Picks span the gamut.
31 OCTOBER 2025 • By TMR
"Sudan Retold," co-curated by Albaih and Fuhrmann, opened at Alhosh Gallery in Doha, focusing on wartime cultural definitions.
24 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jacob Wirtschafter
Respite, please, from genocide and famine in Gaza, but not from torment and heartbreak. Respite, please, for whatever it’s worth.
24 OCTOBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
Nationality: at the end of the day, we are richer for the diversity of our identities, and poorer for our divisions.
This essay examines how grieving for Palestine is policed in classrooms, newsrooms, and across borders, revealing the cost of bearing witness.
7 November 2025 • By Adam Makary
A Moroccan artist becomes Italian and then Arab, all while creating art that critiques orientalist tropes, and having fun along the way.
7 November 2025 • By Naima Morelli
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
In "The Years of Blood" a Nigerian poet grapples with the violence of a nation struggling to find peace amid frequent bloodshed.
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adedayo Agarau
Thinking about icons past and present, Amal Ghandour remembers Egypt's "Star of the East" on the 50th anniversary of her death.
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
Respite, please, from genocide and famine in Gaza, but not from torment and heartbreak. Respite, please, for whatever it’s worth.
24 OCTOBER 2025 • By Amal Ghandour
Neemah Ahamed explores what home means when one's life is upended and what once held cherished emotions disintegrates.
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By NEEMAH AHAMED
Haunted by fear and fragile hope, two couples cross the Afghan capital and accidentally meet. Where is the common ground between them?
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By PARAND
FictionA lonely Lebanese writer welcomes a poor woman into his home, unwittingly realizing that it is she who is saving him.
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By MK HARB
EssayMaysaa Alajjan describes having lived in one homeland that never accepted her, and belonging to another she never knew.
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By MAYSAA ALAJJAN
Fictionبين عالم سائقي الشاحنات وذكريات الطفولة، يسرد بلال حسني تفاصيل قصته القصيرة بخفة، حيث يمر كل شيء، مهما كان خطيرًا، بسلاسة وعادية مدهشتين.
20 OCTOBER 2025 • By بلال حسني
Fictionيكتب أحمد جاد الكريم عن الوحدة والقلق المتصاعد لرجل يظن أنه سيعيش حياة هانئة أخيرًا، ثم يتفاجئ بأن كل شيء ينحدر إلى هوة غير متوقعة بلا أي سيطرة منه.
13 OCTOBER 2025 • By أحمد جاد الكريم
