TMR 41
FORGETTING
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good? The editors inquire.
- TMR 41
- Editorial
Why FORGETTING?
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good? The editors inquire.
- TMR 41
- 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.
3 May 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib- TMR 41
- 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.
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My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
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A Proustian Alexandria
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3 MAY 2024 • BY MOHAMED GOHAR
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies
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3 MAY 2024 • BY BRITTANY LANDORF
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.
3 MAY 2024 • BY ASMAA ELGAMAL
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.
3 MAY 2024 • BY YOUSSEF RAKHA
“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
3 MAY 2024 • BY AREEJ GAMAL
Voices Close to Oblivion and Near the Grave from Syrian Gulag
A first-ever in-depth look into Syria's prison system where prisoners endure unimaginable levels of violence and torture.
3 MAY 2024 • BY UGUR UMIT UNGOR
Forgotten & Silenced Histories in Moroccan Other-Archives
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3 MAY 2024 • BY NATALIE BERNSTIEN
Bloodied Dispatches—Ahmed Isselmou on the Gaza Carnage
The assault on Gaza is the longest and deadliest Israeli offensive to date, and the worst in targeting journalists and their families.
3 MAY 2024 • BY AHMED ISSELMOU
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines
Palestine's shrines are a part of a heritage that has been intentionally erased since the Nakba of 1948, writes Gabriel Polley.
3 MAY 2024 • BY GABRIEL POLLEY
Palestinian Culture, Under Assault, Celebrated in New Cookbook
Fadi Kattan's Palestinian cookbook is a memoir of personal and familial memories, intriguing facts, and emotions, writes Mischa Geracoulis.
3 MAY 2024 • BY MISCHA GERACOULIS
Freedom—Ruminations of a Syrian Refugee
It is obvious that we will never forget; but it is unclear how to proceed with “un-forgetting" writes Reem Alghazzi on her experience of the Syrian revolution.
3 MAY 2024 • BY REEM ALGHAZZI
“The Forgotten”—a short story by Oğuz Atay
Regarded internationally as one of Turkey’s greatest writers, Oğuz Atay (1934-1977) remains largely untranslated into English.
3 MAY 2024 • BY RALPH HUBBELL
The Art of Letting Go: On the Path to Willful Abandonment
Nashwa Nasreldine explores the importance of holding onto failed attempts to capture fleeting moments for the sake of our souls and poetry.
3 MAY 2024 • BY NASHWA NASRELDIN