A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.
13 JUNE 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Sabah Haider
A Syrian medical student from Damascus, forced into exile, shares his story with political scientist Wendy Pearlman — anonymously.
13 DECEMBER 2024 • By Wendy Pearlman
Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by...
12 JULY 2024 • By TMR
An exclusive excerpt from the new bilingual Arabic-English book "Waking Up to My Distorted City" by Hisham Bustani...
5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Hisham Bustani
Dallia Abdel-Moniem has always loved her native city, but when she returned from abroad 10 years ago, it...
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dallia Abdel-Moniem
TMR publishes World Picks special edition on its third anniversary, including events from Sept. 15-26, 2023.
14 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By TMR
Youssef Rakha is more interested in what it means to be a contemporary Arab-Muslim independently of the West...
17 JULY 2023 • By Youssef Rakha
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent's new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.
10 JULY 2023 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.
10 JULY 2023 • By Justin Olivier Salhani
Ahmed Awadalla’s new story reveals sexual pleasure and doubt in a bathhouse in Beirut.
2 JULY 2023 • By Ahmed Awadalla
David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and...
26 JUNE 2023 • By David Rife
