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27 June, 2025

Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the “12-Day War”

A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.

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27 June, 2025

Repression and Resistance in the Work of Artist Ateş Alpar

Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure and methods of state control.

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27 June, 2025

July World Picks from the Editors

Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, and concerts … TMR World Picks run the gamut … 

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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.

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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 • 30 June, 2025

مقال لمنار السيف: قراءة ما بين سطور الأرض

تكتب منار السيف عن علاقتها وإعجابها بتضاريس الأرض، ما دفعها إلى دراسة الجيولوجيا التي شغلت حياتها العملية والخاصة أيضًا. سعت من خلال استكشاف تضاريس الأرض،…

Arabic • 30 June, 2025

قصة قصيرة لمي المغربي: النوم أمام قهوة الجمهورية

تمضي مي المغربي في رحلة تكرر بلا نهاية في أحياء الإسكندرية بحثًا عن مكان للقعدة ولشراء السجاير، في عالم حدوده المقاهي والمحامين وسندوتشات الكبدة والفانتا،…

Essays • 27 June, 2025

Missiles and Rhetoric — a Tehrani Reflects on the “12-Day War”

A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.

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.