TMR 39
Burn It All Down
Senior editor Lina Mounzer articulates the inexpressible, inconsolable feelings at a time when genocide is occurring before the eyes of the world.
- TMR 39
- Editorial
Why “Burn It all Down”?
Senior editor Lina Mounzer articulates the inexpressible, inconsolable feelings at a time when genocide is occurring before the eyes of the world.
- TMR 39
- CENTERPIECE
Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner
Abdelrahman ElGendy asks, how do you hold your grief in a language that's been its main perpetrator?
3 March 2024 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy- TMR 39
- Featured Artist
Reza Abedini – “Death Lover” and “Death of Humanity”
The featured artist for the March 2024 BURN IT ALL DOWN issue is Reza Abedini.
3 March 2024 • By TMRMORE FROM THIS ISSUE
“The Minisecures”—excerpt from The History of the Gods of Egypt
Bonfire of the vanities: A second-rate artist imagines the prophets and the grand, holy tales of monotheism.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY MOHAMMAD RABIE
The Time of Monsters
Layla AlAmmar contemplates how the noise of the past can be perceived as a coherent narrative in hindsight.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY LAYLA ALAMMAR
The Fires of Shame; the Burn of Desire
Joumana Haddad lays bare the physical and cerebral journey that has led her to experience the best sex she's ever had.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY JOUMANA HADDAD
Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking
TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, offers four books to challenge the world as we know it.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY RANA ASFOUR
The Myth of the West: A Discontinuous History
Arie Amaya-Akkermans reviews "The West: a new history of an old idea" that argues how the West was invented to justify imperialism.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY ARIE AMAYA-AKKERMANS
“The Map of a Genocide Victim”—fiction from Faris Lounis
A few entries on a genocidal map...A walk in the Valley of Death that is the war on Gaza and the reckoning to come.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY FARIS LOUNIS
Do or Despair: Political Action in My Great Arab Melancholy
Katie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY KATIE LOGAN
The Legacy of the CIA, from Graveyard Empire
Austro-Afghan reporter Emran Feroz has published a new book on four decades of intervention in Afghanistan, with a chapter on the CIA's legacy.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY EMRAN FEROZ
Artists Exploring Libya’s History, Cultural Resilience and Rebirth
Two exhibitions on Libya try to navigate between what to bring along from the country's past and what to burn down.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY NAIMA MORELLI
Israel’s Environmental and Economic Warfare on Lebanon
Beyond the physical dimension of the current war on Southern Lebanon exists an economic and environmental dimension that cannot, and must not, be ignored, writes Michelle Eid.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY MICHELLE EID
Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”
After the ICJ ruling on Israel, it is in its best interests to redefine its cause to one that is just for both Israelis and Palestinians, writes Amal Ghandour.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY AMAL GHANDOUR
Steel Birds—a photo essay by Noor
A young Palestinian American attempts to find a way out of her grief with a series of stark images that express the trauma of Gaza.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY NOOR
The Story of the Keffiyeh
Amidst the carnage in Gaza, the world has renewed its acquaintance with the region's most recognizable political symbol, writes Rajrupa Das.
3 MARCH 2024 • BY RAJRUPA DAS