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Salacious Criminality—Trenchcoat Detectives, Rogues & Smoking Guns

Salacious Criminality—Trenchcoat Detectives, Rogues & Smoking Guns

The Arabic crime novel can't compete with more popular genres including satire, horror, or historical fiction, but that...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Marcia Lynx Qualey
Traveling Crafts:  The Moon and Science Fiction in Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

Traveling Crafts: The Moon and Science Fiction in Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

Science fiction and dystopias figure prominently in Arab literature going back more than 100 years, writes Elizabeth Rauh.

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Elizabeth L. Rauh
Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa gave a speech at Oxford Union as a resolution passed determining "Israel is an apartheid state...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Susan Abulhawa
Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Katie Logan
“Envy” — a story by Huda Hamed

“Envy” — a story by Huda Hamed

The ambivalence that leads to the break up of a decade-long marriage must first face a mother's wrathful...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Huda Hamed
Animal Truths

Animal Truths

TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
“Habib”—a story by Ghassan Ghassan

“Habib”—a story by Ghassan Ghassan

A bombing in Gaza destroys an entire family except for the protagonist of the short story and his...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Ghassan Ghassan
“The Man Who Loves Ducks” from Freedom, Only Freedom

“The Man Who Loves Ducks” from Freedom, Only Freedom

An inmate in Manus prison who suffers the inhospitable conditions with the rest of the inmates finds solace...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Omid Tofighian
Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
“The Ballad of Lulu and Amina” — from Jerusalem to Gaza

“The Ballad of Lulu and Amina” — from Jerusalem to Gaza

Can Izzeldin Bukhari bring the cat his sister loves to her wedding in Gaza? Only the IDF and...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Izzeldin Bukhari
Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih

Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih

Four artists choose their animals, birds and fish as inspiration, cautionary tale, or metaphor.

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Jelena Sofronijevic
“Gazelles Leaping”—a story by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

“Gazelles Leaping”—a story by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

In this Sufi tale, poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi explores the worlds inhabited by gazelles Sahel and Sahara, between...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Shadab Zeest Hashmi
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