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Featured Artist Ala Younis: Ambiguous Architectures in Abu Dhabi

Featured Artist Ala Younis: Ambiguous Architectures in Abu Dhabi

Ala Younis uses architecture, visual culture, and archives to excavate lesser-known connections and stories.

5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
We, the Wanderers—Featured Artist El Mehdi Largo

We, the Wanderers—Featured Artist El Mehdi Largo

A Moroccan artist becomes Italian and then Arab, all while creating art that critiques orientalist tropes, and having...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Lamia Fakhoury: Holding Space and Working Together

Lamia Fakhoury: Holding Space and Working Together

TMR's editor interviews Jordanian fine artist Lamia Fakhoury on her circuitous journey to devoting herself full-time as a...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Sara Shamma — Cleaving the World in Two

Sara Shamma — Cleaving the World in Two

After living in London and Beirut, Sara Shamma returned to Damascus, where her hyperrealistic paintings reflect the chaos...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

Following the banishment of Bashar Al-Assad, Syrian artists are starting to return and exhibit new work at home...

4 JULY 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Iraq’s Kurdish Genocide and Three Wars: Artists Osman Ahmed & Fakher Mohammed

Iraq’s Kurdish Genocide and Three Wars: Artists Osman Ahmed & Fakher Mohammed

A joint Arab/Kurdish exhibition at Baghdad’s The Gallery showcased how the nation’s two solitudes can unite through art.

6 JUNE 2025 • By Hadani Ditmars
Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

The Sursock Museum in Beirut presents "Ode to the South," a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid...

2 MAY 2025 • By Karina El Helou
Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat’s latest solo show explores the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity, and love.

7 MARCH 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Mostafa Nodeh: Featured Artist Interview

Mostafa Nodeh: Featured Artist Interview

Shooting in black and white with a minimalist approach, Iranian photographer Mostafa Nodeh transcends boundaries of identity and...

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Mostafa Nodeh
Palestine Features in Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Future

Palestine Features in Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Future

Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian-born artist whose photography, film, sculpture, and installation art is bound up with visions...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Larissa Sansour
Lin May Saeed

Lin May Saeed

The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon

Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon

Tom Young's art raises important questions about studying images and the lasting impact of colonialism in the Arab...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Ziad Suidan
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