TMR Issues

The Murals of Yemen’s Haifa Subay

The Murals of Yemen’s Haifa Subay

Yemen street artist, activist and mother Haifa Subay speaks to Farah Abdessamad about the state of the country...

14 MAY 2021 • By Danielle Haque
The Wall We Can’t Tell You About

The Wall We Can’t Tell You About

There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.

14 MAY 2021 • By Jean Lamore
The Bathing Partition

The Bathing Partition

In this creative exploration of identity and homelessness, Sheana Ochoa faces her own inner walls and travels to...

14 MAY 2021 • By Sheana Ochoa
The World Grows Blackthorn Walls

The World Grows Blackthorn Walls

A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.

14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller
A Home Across the Azure Sea

A Home Across the Azure Sea

We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.

14 MAY 2021 • By Todd Miller
Maqloubeh Behind the Wall in Bethlehem

Maqloubeh Behind the Wall in Bethlehem

Chef Fadi Kattan, fed up with walls, Covid and strife with Israel, shares a classic Palestinian recipe.

14 MAY 2021 • By Ella Shohat
Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?

Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?

Taylor Miller explores the aesthetics of gentrification and the "settler colonial hydra that continually displaces, erases, and reinscribes...

14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller
Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in

Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in

Muralist Francisco Letelier travels to the West Bank to help a Palestinian community confront the Occupation with art.

14 MAY 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
We Are All at the Border Now

We Are All at the Border Now

Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy...

14 MAY 2021 • By Todd Miller
Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed

Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed

Artist Tom Young who divides his time between Beirut and London, paints in Hammam Al Jadid during its...

14 MAY 2021 • By Tom Young
From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary

From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary

Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids)...

14 MAY 2021 • By Frances Zaid
The Labyrinth of Memory

The Labyrinth of Memory

Critic Ziad Suidan meditates on the meaning of the labyrinth and the walls that can separate us but...

14 MAY 2021 • By Ziad Suidan
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