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