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The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

Six years into Lebanon’s collapse, Beirut’s cultural centers struggle to cope with an unprecedented displacement crisis.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Four Women in Berlin

Four Women in Berlin

At a Berlin residency, a Gazan writer finds unexpected kinship among women bound by cross-border grief.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Alaa Alqaisi
Will Israel Move From Apartheid to Democracy?

Will Israel Move From Apartheid to Democracy?

Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man offer an idealistic framework to break the stalemate in Palestine.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Mya Guarnieri
Creating Art in Times of War

Creating Art in Times of War

TMR asked writers and artists what motivation can remain, in times of war, to write or create art?...

10 APRIL 2026 • By TMR
A Ledger of Destruction, A Sisterhood of Grief and Grievance

A Ledger of Destruction, A Sisterhood of Grief and Grievance

Amal Ghandour takes the measure of Israel's assaults on Lebanon in the present ceasefire.

10 APRIL 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Fragments of Beirut in Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me

Fragments of Beirut in Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me

Rather than offer a linear retelling of Lebanon’s history, the film draws our attention to the internal rhymes...

10 APRIL 2026 • By Darío Karim Pomar Azar
Apples and Oranges, or Why the US Supports Israel

Apples and Oranges, or Why the US Supports Israel

Why does the U.S. continue funding Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of international...

3 APRIL 2026 • By Jason Hickel
The Souls of War Folk

The Souls of War Folk

The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a...

3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu
“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting...

3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi
A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

No one in Lebanon is ever out of the fray, not even those who are very far away...

27 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive...

27 MARCH 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky on Migrants, Racism, and Hope

Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky on Migrants, Racism, and Hope

An unorthodox family forged by crisis, three African women living together in Tunis, shelters a young shipwreck survivor.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Karim Goury
 
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