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Failures of the Imagination: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

Failures of the Imagination: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

No matter what Empire would like us to believe, history neither began, nor ended, on September 11, 2001.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Gripping, heartbreaking, and resolute, this debut memoir affirms the human intellect as a site of resistance.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Yasmine El Rashidi
Better Baruch Spinoza than Meir Kahane?

Better Baruch Spinoza than Meir Kahane?

Age-old tensions illuminate Israel’s profound crisis as it approaches its seventy-ninth birthday.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Between the City and the Sea: A review of And the Fish Fly Above our Heads

Between the City and the Sea: A review of And the Fish Fly Above our Heads

Dima el-Horr's latest documentary offers a rarely-seen side of Beirut's Corniche.

14 AUGUST 2026 • By Amelia Izmanki
Summer Reading!

Summer Reading!

Discover the top summer reads TMR editors can’t wait to dive into—perfect picks for your own holiday escape.

14 AUGUST 2026 • By TMR
A Life not Defined by Death: A critical reading of The Book of Damascus

A Life not Defined by Death: A critical reading of The Book of Damascus

Comma Press’s "Reading the City" series turns its attention to Damascus.

14 AUGUST 2026 • By Anas Tareef
To Inhabit the Wind: The Kurd and the politics of recognition

To Inhabit the Wind: The Kurd and the politics of recognition

A young Kurdish writer grapples with what it means to exist outside the politics of appeal and visibility.

7 AUGUST 2026 • By Aline Jabbari
Twining Apocalypse and Rebirth in Israel-Palestine

Twining Apocalypse and Rebirth in Israel-Palestine

A columnist speculates on the possible afterlives awaiting after Gaza's apocalypse.

7 AUGUST 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Two Poems by Selîm Temo

Two Poems by Selîm Temo

Two new poems by Kurdish translator and poet Selîm Temo are presented in English translation for the first...

7 AUGUST 2026 • By Selîm Temo
Birhan Keskin’s Earthly Conditions: Godless Sufism?

Birhan Keskin’s Earthly Conditions: Godless Sufism?

A poetry collection by a transformative Turkish voice explores questions of gender, queer desire, memory, and belonging.

31 JULY 2026 • By Efe Murad
Alkhallat+: More Than a Comedy Series

Alkhallat+: More Than a Comedy Series

A series set against the Saudi desert and city frames marginalized individuals in absurd situations as heroes.

31 JULY 2026 • By Mira Minkara
Memory and Forgetting in Of Loss and Lavender

Memory and Forgetting in Of Loss and Lavender

Sinan Antoon’s self-translated novel explores the different ways memory unfolds in exile but offers no closure.

31 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
 
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