TMR 15 • Fire

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
“The Settlement”—a story by Tariq Mehmood

“The Settlement”—a story by Tariq Mehmood

From Tariq Mehmood comes an allegorical story with the strange beauty and simplicity of a tale by Ghassan...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Tariq Mehmood
Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis

Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Omar El Akkad
Killing Olive Trees Fails to Push Palestinians Out

Killing Olive Trees Fails to Push Palestinians Out

Olive trees are majestic, they are the source of many livelihoods throughout Palestine, and they have too often...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Basil Al-Adraa
FIRE: An Abbreviated Reading List

FIRE: An Abbreviated Reading List

Here are a few staff picks in a very short list that could benefit from having us add...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By
Alchemy and the Deaf Blacksmith of Amman

Alchemy and the Deaf Blacksmith of Amman

Munir Atalla, the Brooklyn-based writer-director, recounts the story of a rather unusually happy, earnest man with a handicap...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Munir Atalla
Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Poem: An Allegory for Our Times

Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Ivar Ekeland
Sacred Fire, Profane Fire: From Ritual to Barbecue

Sacred Fire, Profane Fire: From Ritual to Barbecue

Bethlehem's top chef Fadi Kattan waxes enthusiastic on fire, grilling and the art of turning meat pink.

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Ella Shohat
Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on...

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.

NOVEMBER 15, 2021 • By Megan Marshall
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