TMR 7 • Truth?

On Literacy and the Lack Thereof

On Literacy and the Lack Thereof

Marcus Gilroy-Ware, the author of After the Fact, The Truth About Fake News, warns that literacy and numeracy...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Memory and the Assassination of Lokman Slim

Memory and the Assassination of Lokman Slim

Claire Launchbury writes of one man's long search for the truth about Lebanon's civil war, cut short by...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Claire Launchbury
The Crash, Covid-19 and Other Iranian Stories

The Crash, Covid-19 and Other Iranian Stories

Malu Halasa reviews the new graphic novel by former political prisoner and editorial cartoonist Mana Neyestani, released in...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Malu Halasa
Allah and the American Dream

Allah and the American Dream

Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews the second novel from Syed Masood, but isn't sure he likes its happy ending.

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Two Poems for Truth by Ammiel Alcalay

Two Poems for Truth by Ammiel Alcalay

Two new poems by Ammiel Alcalay, "Kashoggi or Kashog-ji?" and "Translation Theory", explore versions of the truth.

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
The Short, Happy Life of Shirley Thompson

The Short, Happy Life of Shirley Thompson

Novelist Preeta Samarasan believes that the greatest truths reside more often in fiction than in fact.

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
Poetry Against the State

Poetry Against the State

Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer

Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer

Biographer Marian Janssen reveals the big, brash, blonde feminist writer and poet Carolyn Kizer, who fascinated and shocked...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Marian Janssen
The Freedom You Want

The Freedom You Want

A poem for Syria by Mohja Kahf.

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Charlie Faulkner
The Truth About Iraq: Memory, Trauma and the End of an Era

The Truth About Iraq: Memory, Trauma and the End of an Era

Hadani Ditmars remembers what Baghdad was like following the second Gulf War in 2003, when she toured Abu...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
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