Rome-based filmmaker Amy Omar explores the short stories of a Turkish writer living in Paris who turns cities...
7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Amy Omar
In the Global South, abstraction connects with modernism and evades censorship. Could it be a powerful way to...
10 OCTOBER 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
After living in London and Beirut, Sara Shamma returned to Damascus, where her hyperrealistic paintings reflect the chaos...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, concerts and several new recommended books for September to add to your reading list.
29 AUGUST 2025 • By TMR
A conversation with Mohammad Kassem, co-curator of the Kuwait Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
1 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.
1 AUGUST 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. serviceman who self-immolated to protest the genocide in Gaza, has become a modern Palestinian...
11 JULY 2025 • By Hadani Ditmars
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
Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure...
27 JUNE 2025 • By Jennifer Hattam
Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, and concerts … TMR World Picks run the gamut …
27 JUNE 2025 • By TMR
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
Lebanese Canadian writer and visual artist Joyce Joumaa’s videos demonstrate that the colonized are not passive recipients of...
6 JUNE 2025 • By Aidan Simardone
