Interviews

İlhan Sami Çomak: 3 Poems and an Interview

İlhan Sami Çomak: 3 Poems and an Interview

An interview with former prisoner and Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak, on the eve of the Day of...

14 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Öykü Tekten
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
Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian

Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian

Jadd Hilal is French, Palestinian, and Lebanese. In this interview with TMR, he parses national identities.

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
On Identity—Ayşegül Savaş’ Long Distance

On Identity—Ayşegül Savaş’ Long Distance

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
Interview: Annemarie Jacir on Palestine 36

Interview: Annemarie Jacir on Palestine 36

To understand Palestine, argues writer-director Annemarie Jacir, you have to go back to the first decades of the...

31 OCTOBER 2025 • By Hadani Ditmars
Fatima Daas on Playing the Game

Fatima Daas on Playing the Game

In the midst of a busy press tour for her second novel, French literary sensation Fatima Daas took...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
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
Kaynuna: Interview with Mohammad Kassem on Kuwait’s Pavilion

Kaynuna: Interview with Mohammad Kassem on Kuwait’s Pavilion

A conversation with Mohammad Kassem, co-curator of the Kuwait Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

1 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
23 Hours Inside State Dept. Press Briefings on the Gaza Genocide

23 Hours Inside State Dept. Press Briefings on the Gaza Genocide

The curator of the "Art of the Palestinian Poster" exhibition interviews two documentarians on their film "A Bunch...

23 MAY 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Between Belief and Doubt: Ramzi Mallat’s Suspended Disbelief

Between Belief and Doubt: Ramzi Mallat’s Suspended Disbelief

"Suspended Disbelief" interrogates the tension between belief and doubt in the folklore and collective psyche of the Mediterranean...

11 APRIL 2025 • By Marta Mendes
حوار مع ليلى المطوع: أريد أن أكون ماءين

حوار مع ليلى المطوع: أريد أن أكون ماءين

في حوار مع مجلة المركز، تتحدث الروائية البحرينية ليلى المطوع عن نصوصها وما يؤثر عليها. نشرت ليلى روايتها...

13 JANUARY 2025 • By TMR
حوار مع نورا ناجي: مشغولة بالعالم

حوار مع نورا ناجي: مشغولة بالعالم

تتحدث الكاتبة المصرية نورا ناجي مطولًا عن ما تكتب، وكيف كان تأثير ثورة يناير 2011 عليها كبيرًا ومركبًا،...

30 DECEMBER 2024 • By TMR
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