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An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the...

30 MAY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
June World Picks from the Editors

June World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...

30 MAY 2025 • By TMR
Algerian-French Author Kamel Daoud on the Defensive

Algerian-French Author Kamel Daoud on the Defensive

Embattled Algerian-French author Kamel Daoud won France’s most prestigious literary prize for a story he is accused of...

16 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Editors’ 2025 Palestinian Lit List

Editors’ 2025 Palestinian Lit List

May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their...

15 MAY 2025 • By TMR
A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025

A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025

This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world...

9 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza

Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza

Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025...

9 MAY 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...

9 MAY 2025 • By Elena Pare
Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return...

2 MAY 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
“Return to Salé,” an excerpt from Le Bastion des Larmes

“Return to Salé,” an excerpt from Le Bastion des Larmes

Returning to Salé, his hometown in Morocco, a writer and educator is haunted by the voice of a...

2 MAY 2025 • By Abdellah Taïa
Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...

25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
May World Picks from the Editors

May World Picks from the Editors

Film and writers’ festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies, and writing workshops.

25 APRIL 2025 • By TMR
An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as...

18 APRIL 2025 • By Sean Casey
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