TMR 22
STORIES
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Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine
The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and borders.
15 June 2022 • By TMRMORE FROM THIS ISSUE
“Asha and Haaji”—a story by Hanif Kureishi
The author of the story collection "Love in a Blue Time" weaves a dystopian tale of migrants, love and literature.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY HANIF KUREISHI
Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine
The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and borders.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY TMR
Mai Al-Nakib: “Naaseha’s Counsel”
The author of the novel "An Unlasting Home" recalls stories of African slaves in Iraq and Kuwait.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY MAI AL-NAKIB
“Godshow.com”—a short story by Ahmed Naji
The Egyptian novelist and author of "Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison" finds versions of Islam in the Nevada desert.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY AHMED NAJI
Joumana Haddad: “Victim #232”
A preview of the new Arabic novel from the author of "I Killed Scheherazade" and "Superman is an Arab."
15 JUNE 2022 • BY JOUMANA HADDAD
Rabih Alameddine: “Remembering Nasser”
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY MARYAM MORTAZ
Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”
Riding the bus down memory lane, a Palestinian American scholar of digital culture at MIT recalls her time in Jerusalem and Haifa.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY SULAFA ZIDANI
Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”
The filmmaker behind "Tell Spring Not to Come This Year" and "A Thousand Fires" journeys with Mohammad Bakri to find home.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY SAEED TAJI FAROUKY
Nektaria Anastasiadou: “Gold in Taksim Square”
The novelist behind "A Recipe for Daphne" returns to multicultural Istanbul to write about love and death amongst the city's minorities.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY NEKTARIA ANASTASIADOU
Barrak Alzaid: “Pink and Blue”
A young storyteller in Kuwait is captivated by the lives of Filipina women he does not know.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY BARRAK ALZAID
Dima Mikhayel Matta: “This Text Is a Very Lonely Document”
A bold excerpt from the new Saqi anthology, "This Arab is Queer," in which a non-binary person from Lebanon explores solitude and family.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY KARéN JALLATYAN
Steve Sabella: Excerpts from “The Parachute Paradox”
In these stories from his impassioned memoir, Steve Sabella works to decolonize the mind and liberate his identity.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY NAWAL NASRALLAH
Lisa Teasley: “Death is Beautiful”
Should we be happy we're finite? Lisa Teasley weaves a tale merging art, transhumanists and artificial intelligence.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY TALINE VOSKERITCHIAN
Bakhtiyar Ali: “The Prisoner and the Plague”
From one of the most prominent contemporary authors and poets from Iraqi Kurdistan comes an unforgettable tale of oppression, and freedom.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY BAKYTIYAR ALI
Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”
A short story of international love from the author of the Gaza novel "Out of It."
15 JUNE 2022 • BY CLAUDIA WIENS
“Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”—a story by Alireza Iranmehr
One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY ALIREZA IRANMEHR
“The Salamander”—fiction from Sarah AlKahly-Mills
In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while a biologist seeks an elusive salamander.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY SARAH ALKAHLY-MILLS
Karim Kattan: “The Gravedigger”
The trilingual Palestinian novelist and short story writer weaves an engaging tale of love, death and redemption.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY KARIM KATTAN
Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”
Translator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq and Iran.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY HAWRA AL-NADAWI
“Intellectuals”—fiction from Hisham Bustani
From the fabulous — some would say surreal — Jordanian storyteller who gave us "The Monotonous Chaos of Existence."
15 JUNE 2022 • BY HISHAM BUSTANI
“The Suffering Mother of the Whole World”—a story by Amany Kamal Eldin
A wayward daughter leaves Boston to spend a summer back home in Cairo, where she observes the decline of her once prominent family.
15 JUNE 2022 • BY AMANY KAMAL ELDIN