Latest

20 June, 2025

Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran

A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to send his observations to TMR.

Read More →

20 June, 2025

Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer once did in Baghdad.

Read More →

20 June, 2025

Afraid for Our Children’s Future, How Do We Talk About War?

Souseh counsels hope and continued resistance to an anxious mother worried about her kids in dangerous times.

Read More →

13 June, 2025

Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status

A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.

Read More →

TMR 51 • MEZZE

Mama’s Kitchen

A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about the value of women’s work — and whether love’s labor is ever truly lost.

Centerpiece

Art of the Palestinian Poster, curated by Malu Halasa, is part of the 2025 Shubbak Festival.

Latest Essays & Fiction

Arabic • 23 June, 2025

نظرة إلى متعددة ولادات عظمى

تنظر سارة شاهين إلى مريضاتها نظرتين مترابطتين؛ واحدة كطبيبة تنظر إلى مريض، والأخرى كإنسانة تنظر إلى إنسان يخوض تجربة تحويلية. متحيرة بين النظرتين، تعلم أنهما…

Essays • 20 June, 2025

Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran

A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to send his observations to TMR.

Essays • 20 June, 2025

Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer once did in Baghdad.

Art & Photography • 13 June, 2025

Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status

A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.

Arabic • 9 June, 2025

مقال لسارة شاهين: لا مكان إلا القاهرة، لا حيلة مع القاهرة

عن القاهرة القديمة وشوارعها، تكتب سارة شاهين بلغة رصينة وممتعة في الوقت نفسه، من داخل أوتوبيس نقل عام، أو من «استقبال النساء»، تتغير نظرتها نحو…

Centerpiece • 6 June, 2025

Mama’s Kitchen

A writer looks back on formative memories of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and wonders about the value of women’s work — and…