TMR Issues

Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

  Twelve Gates Arts and the Collective for Black Iranians are hosting “Hasteem: We Are Here” from September 3-24,...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Aimée Papazian
For Somalia’s Sagal Ali and Her Country’s Future, Art Triumphs Over War

For Somalia’s Sagal Ali and Her Country’s Future, Art Triumphs Over War

  Art historian Sophie Kazan speaks to Sagal Ali about the importance of art-making for the future of...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Flagbearer of a Stateless Nation, from “Daughters of Smoke and Fire”

Flagbearer of a Stateless Nation, from “Daughters of Smoke and Fire”

The following is excerpted from Chapter 14 in Ava Homa’s Daughters of Smoke and Fire and appears in...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Omar El Akkad
Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Three Poems by Kashmiri American Bard Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali Tonight    Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar                          —Laurence Hope...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Karima Ahdad
My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

Brahim El Guabli   I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
The Harrowing Life of Kurdish Freedom Activist Kobra Banehi

The Harrowing Life of Kurdish Freedom Activist Kobra Banehi

Excerpted from the anthology Kurdish Women’s Stories (Pluto Press, 2020), by special arrangement with editor Houzan Mahmoud.  ...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Kobra Banehi
The Complexity of Belonging: Reflections of a Female Copt

The Complexity of Belonging: Reflections of a Female Copt

  Nevine Abraham Growing up in Shoubra, one of the most populated Christian suburbs of Cairo, I met...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Nevine Abraham
The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Wrong End of the Telescope a novel by Rabih Alameddine Grove Atlantic (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780802157805 Dima...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By khulud khamis
“Tattoos,” an excerpt from Karima Ahdad’s Amazigh-Moroccan novel “Cactus Girls”

“Tattoos,” an excerpt from Karima Ahdad’s Amazigh-Moroccan novel “Cactus Girls”

In this excerpt from the Amazigh-Moroccan novel "Cactus Girls" by Karima Ahdad, a fierce small-town girl from the...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Monique El-Faizy
Attack the Empire and the Empire Strikes Back: What 20 Years of American Imperialism Has Wrought

Attack the Empire and the Empire Strikes Back: What 20 Years of American Imperialism Has Wrought

Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise, looks at 20 years of blowback.

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Omar El Akkad
Shelf Life: The Irreverent Nadia Wassef

Shelf Life: The Irreverent Nadia Wassef

For a brutally honest look at what it’s been like to run a business and raise a family...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By janinedigiovanni
Scroll to Top