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On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

On Forgiveness and Path—an Exhibition in Damascus

In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.

18 APRIL 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
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
Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

History writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a...

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Todd Reisz
December World Picks from the Editors

December World Picks from the Editors

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

29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By TMR
The Fiction of Palestine’s Ghassan Zaqtan

The Fiction of Palestine’s Ghassan Zaqtan

Cory Oldweiler reviews three novellas by Bethlehem born and raised, Ramallah-based poet and writer Ghassan Zaqtan.

13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Cory Oldweiler
The Tate Embraces Morocco with The Casablanca Art School

The Tate Embraces Morocco with The Casablanca Art School

Sophie Kazan reviews a colorful exhibition that conveys Moroccan history and culture via paintings, ceramics, photographs, 1960s and...

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?

What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?

Jonathan Ofir on the new book by Daniel Boyarin that questions Jewish identity while weighing Palestinian freedom from...

21 AUGUST 2023 • By Jonathan Ofir
Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s  Imagining Palestine

Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s Imagining Palestine

Israeli-British historian Ilan Pappé argues that the agency and resilience of the Palestinians shines in "Imagining Palestine."

7 AUGUST 2023 • By Ilan Pappé
What Palestine Brings to the World—a Major Paris Exhibition

What Palestine Brings to the World—a Major Paris Exhibition

Sasha Moujaes tours an expansive exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, talking to the curator and several...

31 JULY 2023 • By Sasha Moujaes
Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Philip Grant took a look at a vast Los Angeles art exhibition that presents 75 independent Arab and...

26 JUNE 2023 • By Philip Grant
The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story

The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the film of a migrant story set in Greece that has just been nominated for...

8 MAY 2023 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Kafka in Tangier is a Brooding Homage to Metamorphosis

Kafka in Tangier is a Brooding Homage to Metamorphosis

Rula Khateeb Jarallah reviews the news translation of the Mohammed Said Hjiouij novella in which a man is...

8 MAY 2023 • By Rula Khateeb Jarallah
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