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Demarcations of Identity: Rushdi Anwar
From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s new show.
This Year in Venice, it’s the “Palestine Biennale”
At this year’s Venice Biennale, Palestine looms large, writes Hadani Ditmars.
“I, Mariam”—a story by Joumana Haddad
Joumana Haddad's short story delves into a woman's lifelong journey of navigating her relationship with the hijab.
Malak Mattar: No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin
Malak Mattar's artwork at the Venice Biennale evokes a multi-sensory experience that demands to be felt, writes Nadine Nour el Din.
TMR 41 • FORGETTING
Centerpiece
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting
Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.
Featured Artist
Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”
Gazan artist Hazem Harb remembers and celebrates the old, new, destroyed, erased and dead of Palestine in a personal response to a nasty war.
Poetry Markaz
Sahar Muradi presents two poems from OCTOBERS
Heartbreak and echoes, as a poet recalls the US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of…
Moheb Soliman presents two poems from HOMES
Far from his first country, a poet maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands…
TMR Interviews
Magyd Cherfi’s French Journey, from Musical Stardom to Novelist
The Franco-Algerian star of Zebda, a major pop band 1985-2015, has become a writer to reckon with, in this interview by Sarah Naili.
Intimacy & Our Inner Sanctuary—an Interview with Rana Samara
For Palestinian artist Rana Samara, intimacy is not just about love and sex, but is a mixture of connection, comfort and feeling at home.
Latest Essays & Fiction
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting
Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.
Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering
Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.
A Proustian Alexandria
Claiming a past that never existed previously in the city, nostalgia overwhelms the inhabitants of Alexandria, writes Mohamed Gohar.
Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet
Youssef Rakha revisits his fascination with Sargon Boulos who managed to live out poetic Arabness in exile as nobody else did.
The Elephant in the Box
Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst oppression.
“Cotton Flower”—a short story by Areej Gamal
Areej Gamal's translated short story from Egypt depicts a potted plant and forbidden love that become intertwined, with an unexpected outcome