Memoir Archives

29 November, 2024 • Tarek Abi Samra

Lebanon may have survived yet another Israeli onslaught but the people emerge scathed and timorous, as if from a nightmare.

22 November, 2024 • Rima Rantisi

Rima Rantisi depicts the uncertainty and anxiety of Israel's assault on Lebanon, illustrating its impact on daily life.

An inmate in Manus prison who suffers the inhospitable conditions with the rest of the inmates finds solace in befriending animals.

1 November, 2024 • Izzeldin Bukhari

Can Izzeldin Bukhari bring the cat his sister loves to her wedding in Gaza? Only the IDF and Hamas stand in his way.

15 September, 2024 • TMR

A few words from the editors on the passing of Elias Khoury, on September 15, 2024.

13 September, 2024 • Rana Asfour, Malu Halasa

True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina Mounzer.

20 November, 2023 • Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a young Iranian woman in Tehran, albeit vehicled by fiction.

A moving testimony to life, death, and the human condition by an Egyptian journalist who was blessed, and cursed.

15 November, 2022 • Rushda Rafeek

Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.

15 November, 2022 • Sara Mokhavat

Sara Mokhavat's first passion was for football and the Persepolis team, but being female in Iran put the kibosh on that.

Lebanese poet-novelist Abbas Baydoun reflects in an autobiographical mode on the melancholy of language and existence, while contemplating sweets.

1 August, 2021 • Heba Hayek

TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from the new book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek’s vignettes of a girlhood in Gaza.