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7 March, 2025 • Sabah Haider

Heartbreak and Commemoration in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's latest onslaught.

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13 December, 2024 • Wendy Pearlman

Kareem’s Story, Excerpt from The Home I Worked to Make

A Syrian medical student from Damascus, forced into exile, shares his story with political scientist Wendy Pearlman — anonymously.

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12 July, 2024 • TMR

World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2

Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

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5 November, 2023 • Hisham Bustani, Addie Leak

From An Improvised Attempt to Understand Social Transformations in Amman: “urbane” behavior in a city that is not a city

An exclusive excerpt from the new bilingual Arabic-English book "Waking Up to My Distorted City" by Hisham Bustani and Linda Al Khoury on the "urban" distortion of Amman.

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23 October, 2023 • Dallia Abdel-Moniem

Ode to Khartoum—a City Riven by Civil War

Dallia Abdel-Moniem has always loved her native city, but when she returned from abroad 10 years ago, it was with renewed hope for Sudan.

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14 September, 2023 • TMR

Special World Picks Sept 15-26 on TMR’s Third Anniversary

TMR publishes World Picks special edition on its third anniversary, including events from Sept. 15-26, 2023.

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17 July, 2023 • Youssef Rakha

Ghassan Zeineddine Reflects On, Transcends the Identity Zeitgeist

Youssef Rakha is more interested in what it means to be a contemporary Arab-Muslim independently of the West than an American Arab.

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10 July, 2023 • Iason Athanasiadis

Why Isn’t Ghaith Abdul-Ahad a Household Name?

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent's new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.

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10 July, 2023 • Justin Olivier Salhani

Neither Explosions Nor Inflation Have Sunk Beirut’s Bookshops

Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.

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2 July, 2023 • Ahmed Awadalla

In Shahrazad’s Hammam—fiction by Ahmed Awadalla

Ahmed Awadalla’s new story reveals sexual pleasure and doubt in a bathhouse in Beirut.

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26 June, 2023 • David Rife

Freedom and Dislocation in Jamal Mahjoub’s Novel, The Fugitives

David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and noir novels.

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19 June, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Deniz Goran’s New Novel Contrasts Art and the Gezi Park Protests

A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey, sometimes through exile.

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10 April, 2023 • William Carruthers

In Luxor, Egypt Projects Renewed Tourism Economy

Art historian William Carruthers explores the modern city of Luxor and the ancient site of Thebes along the Nile.

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2 April, 2023 • Omar El Akkad

“The Icarist”—a short story by Omar El Akkad

Novelist Omar El Akkad recounts a beguiling coming-of-age story set in Doha, where he grew up before the family emigrated to Canada.

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5 March, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

For Those Who Dwell in Tents, Home is Temporal—Or Is It?

Home is increasingly an elusive quality in an era of war, climate disaster, economic collapse and family misfortune.

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