Malu Halasa

Remaining in Light: Iranians Search for Solace and Well-Being

Remaining in Light: Iranians Search for Solace and Well-Being

Iranian doctors, psychotherapists, and exiled human rights advocates are exploring new talk therapy methods to combat despair amid...

5 SEPTEMBER, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Ignoring the Drones: Introduction to Freedom to Read

Ignoring the Drones: Introduction to Freedom to Read

TMR's literary editor gives insight and nuance to our Summer 2025 double literary issue.

4 JULY, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
23 Hours Inside State Dept. Press Briefings on the Gaza Genocide

23 Hours Inside State Dept. Press Briefings on the Gaza Genocide

The curator of the "Art of the Palestinian Poster" exhibition interviews two documentarians on their film "A Bunch...

23 MAY, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
With Brecht, Rabih Mroué & Lina Majdalanie Deconstruct Fascism

With Brecht, Rabih Mroué & Lina Majdalanie Deconstruct Fascism

The new Lebanese performance, "Four Walls and a Roof," uses trial testimony, humor, and Eisler-Brecht songs to address...

11 APRIL, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the...

7 MARCH, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a psycho-social-virtual memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

7 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Escapism in Times of War—on Genre Fiction

Escapism in Times of War—on Genre Fiction

In which our literary editor becomes your guide through TMR 47, a double issue packed with fiction and...

6 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Animal Truths

Animal Truths

TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."

1 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

After a year of the war on Gaza, signs and symbols, art, and visuals from and about Palestine...

4 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Top 10 Books to Read this Fall

Top 10 Books to Read this Fall

Editors recommend their top ten titles to read this season, from novels set in Egypt, Zanzibar, Oman and...

13 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
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