TMR 55 • NATIONALITY

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
Home — a State of Restlessness?

Home — a State of Restlessness?

Neemah Ahamed explores what home means when one's life is upended and what once held cherished emotions disintegrates.

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Neemah Ahamed
The Non-Citizen Gulf Resident Novel: An Emergent Genre?

The Non-Citizen Gulf Resident Novel: An Emergent Genre?

Non-citizen Gulf residents are rarely depicted in media or literature, but two new novels may change all that.

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Gaar Adams
Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian

Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian

Jadd Hilal is French of Palestinian and Lebanese heritage. In this interview with Lara Vergnaud, he parses national...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
“Paranoia”—a story from Afghanistan

“Paranoia”—a story from Afghanistan

Haunted by fear and fragile hope, two couples cross the Afghan capital and accidentally meet. Where is the...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Parand
Love and Other Obstacles: When a Palestinian and an Israeli Get Married

Love and Other Obstacles: When a Palestinian and an Israeli Get Married

A romance between an Israeli woman and her Palestinian partner ultimately builds a case for one state where...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Anna Lekas Miller
The Grammar of Power: On Journalism, Grief, and the Stories That Break Us

The Grammar of Power: On Journalism, Grief, and the Stories That Break Us

This essay examines how grieving for Palestine is policed in classrooms, newsrooms, and across borders, revealing the cost...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adam Makary
Sultana to the Rescue

Sultana to the Rescue

A lonely Lebanese writer welcomes a poor woman into his home, unwittingly realizing that it is she who...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By MK Harb
The Absent Homeland

The Absent Homeland

Maysaa Alajjan describes having lived in one homeland that never accepted her, and belonging to another she never...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Maysaa Alajjan
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
Why NATIONALITY?

Why NATIONALITY?

Nationality: at the end of the day, we are richer for the diversity of our identities, and poorer...

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Myth and Migration in the Work of Dalia Al-Dujaili

Myth and Migration in the Work of Dalia Al-Dujaili

Al-Dujaili shows that crises like migrant detention, colonialism, and climate change connect us and reveal our shared humanity.

6 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Noshin Bokth
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