TMR 41 • Forgetting

Why FORGETTING?

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.

MAY 3, 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”

Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”

Gazan artist Hazem Harb remembers and celebrates the old, new, destroyed, erased and dead of Palestine in a...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.

MAY 3, 2024 • By Nabil Salih
A Proustian Alexandria

A Proustian Alexandria

Claiming a past that never existed previously in the city, nostalgia overwhelms the inhabitants of Alexandria, writes Mohamed...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Mohamed Gohar
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

Saleem Haddad reviews the Sawalha family story that offers hope in resilience, resistance, and survival against all odds.

MAY 3, 2024 • By Saleem Haddad
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies

Brittany Landorf reviews the first major film of director Asmae El Moudir, Morocco’s entry for the 2024 Academy...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Brittany Landorf
Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Youssef Rakha revisits his fascination with Sargon Boulos who managed to live out poetic Arabness in exile as...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Youssef Rakha
The Elephant in the Box

The Elephant in the Box

Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal
“Cotton Flower”—a short story by Areej Gamal

“Cotton Flower”—a short story by Areej Gamal

Areej Gamal's translated short story from Egypt depicts a potted plant and forbidden love that become intertwined, with...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Areej Gamal
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