These on-the-ground notes from Iran reject oversimplification and one-sided narratives: "There is layer upon layer."
23 JANUARY 2026 • By M. Nateqnuri
Women's bodies have always been policed but Souseh reminds us that we don't have to buy into the narrative.
23 JANUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Despite its strong performances and scenography, Rajiv Joseph's play remains a western telling of the Iraq War.
23 JANUARY 2026 • By Nazli Tarzi
Neshat’s work reminds us that Iran has always contained multitudes: radical artists, secular thinkers, feminists, modernists.
16 JANUARY 2026 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Author Ammiel Alcalay defies categorization in his latest book (in fact four), producing a work that is both timely and timeless.
16 JANUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
In this dissection of Trumpian spectacle, TMR columnist Amal Ghandour digs into the root (evil) of Empire.
16 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
What could be more central to any discussion of peace and justice than Palestinian freedom and sovereignty in our lifetimes?
Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons, speaks to interviewer Rebecca Ruth Gould.
30 January 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum keeps returning to the same questions: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized? And what remains concealed?
30 January 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
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
Women's bodies have always been policed but Souseh reminds us that we don't have to buy into the narrative.
23 JANUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
In this dissection of Trumpian spectacle, TMR columnist Amal Ghandour digs into the root (evil) of Empire.
16 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
FictionDanger looms over this story, set in pre-Nakba Palestine, about a protective mother and her young son.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SAHAR MUSTAFAH
EssayOno explores the dissonance of a reality in which many feel like they in fact need protection from Israel.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By SHERYL ONO
Israeli settlement plans in and around Bethlehem threaten a centuries-old monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By A MOM FROM BETHLEHEM
EssayRaja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • By RAJA SHEHADEH
EssayCoffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities, and blessings.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By ESRAA ABO QAMAR
EssayA young writer in Gaza reports that, despite the ceasefire, safe transportation remains scarce, and a matter of life and death.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By MARIAM MUSHTAHA
