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The Mystery of Enayat al-Zayyat in Iman Mersal’s Tour de Force
Donkeys and Mules—Motors of the High Atlas Mountains
Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight
Saqi’s Revenant: Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic Nablus Novel
Wild Thorns
Illegitimate Literature—Interview with Novelist Ebru Ojen
Kurdish Novel Explores Nightmarish Isolation in Eastern Anatolia
Memory Art: Water and Islands in the Work of Hera Büyüktaşçıyan
Anatolian Journey: a Writer Travels to Sultan Han to Witness a Postmodern Installation
Special World Picks Sept 15-26 on TMR’s Third Anniversary
Andal
—Three Poems Translated by Ravi Shankar
Allen C. Jones—Two Poems from
Son of a Cult
When the Earth Shook: Notes From a Marrakesh Survivor
Death is a Traitor: Living the Morocco Earthquake from the US
Resilience Amidst the Ruins: Nfis Valley Endures After the Quake
“The Beggar King”—a short story by Michael Scott Moore
The Fall of Kabul: Parwan Detention Facility, Bagram District, Parwan Province
World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier
World Picks: Exist Festival + the Mosaic Room, London
Two Poems, Practicing Absence & At the Airport—Sholeh Wolpé
“Sadness in My Heart”—a story by Hilal Chouman
September 11, 1973 and Ariel Dorfman’s
The Suicide Museum
A Day in the Life with Forugh Farrokhzad (and a Tortoise)
“A Dog in the Woods”—a short story by Malu Halasa
“Hamidinou’s Smile”—a Mauritanian story by Ahmed Isselmou
London Cemeteries: And Now It Is Death
A Day in the Life of a Saturday Market Trawler in Cairo
They and I, in Budapest
A Day in the Life of a Niqabi Mother in New York
“Sweet Tea”—a classic Kurdish story by Hussein Arif
“Tainted”—fiction from May Haddad
Traveling Through Turkey With Gertrude Bell and Pat Yale
Laila Halaby’s
The Weight of Ghosts
is a Haunting Memoir
The End of Arabic and the Dumbing Down of America
“Kill Yusuf”—a short story by Hisham Al-Najjar
On Museums and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?
Open Letter: On Being Palestinian and Publishing Poetry in the US
Bound Together: My Longings for Ishmael
Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization
The Middle East is Once Again West Asia
Books That Will Chase me in the Afterlife
Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s
Imagining Palestine
Sofia Alaoui’s
Animalia
is a Supernatural Thriller Shot in Morocco
The Soil and the Sea
: The Revolutionary Act of Remembering
Three Poems from Pantea Amin Tofangchi’s
Glazed With War
Three Poems from Annie Finch’s
Earth Days
What Palestine Brings to the World
—a Major Paris Exhibition
Can the Kurdish Women’s Movement Transform the Middle East?
Arab American Teens Come of Age in
Nayra and the Djinn
Off to War—A Marriage on the Brink
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