Activism in the Landscape: Environmental Arts & Resistance in Palestine
The uprooting of olive trees by Israel is both symbolic and real, destroying Palestinians' right to live with shelter, safety, and dignity.
Art & Photography
Photographer Mohamed Mahdy—Artist at Work
A world-renowned artist believes citizen photojournalism empowers communities to tell their own stories, giving it significant power.
Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”
Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer Iason Athnasiadis.
World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2
Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.
Our Review of transfeminisms
A major exhibition at Mimosa House aims to address pressing and unresolved issues faced by women, queer, and trans people across the world.
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines
Palestine's shrines are a part of a heritage that has been intentionally erased since the Nakba of 1948, writes Gabriel Polley.
Malak Mattar: No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin
Malak Mattar's artwork at the Venice Biennale evokes a multi-sensory experience that demands to be felt, writes Nadine Nour el Din.
Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS
Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences, memory and the invisible.
World Picks from the Editors: Mar 23— Apr 5
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
Will Artists Against Genocide Boycott the Venice Biennale?
Hadani Ditmars reports on the calls to shut down the Israeli pavilion in the Venice Biennale, and a possible widespread artist boycott.
Artists Exploring Libya’s History, Cultural Resilience and Rebirth
Two exhibitions on Libya try to navigate between what to bring along from the country's past and what to burn down.
Steel Birds—a photo essay by Noor Nabulsi
A young Palestinian American attempts to find a way out of her grief with a series of stark images that express the trauma of Gaza.
New Palestinian Poster Art Responds to War and Apartheid
Curator Nadine Aranki presents posters by new and established artists, writers and graphic designers, in the service of social justice for Palestine.
The Body, Intimacy and Technology in the Middle East
Six women artists and curator Nadine Khalil explore women's bodies in a Dubai exhibition, in an interview by Naima Morelli.
Cyprus: Return to Petrofani with Ali Cherri & Vicky Pericleous
Arie Amaya-Akkermans talks to Lebanese and Cypriot artists about their work on the divided island of Cyprus.