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A Miscarriage of Justice in the Case of Mahmood Hussain Mattan

A Miscarriage of Justice in the Case of Mahmood Hussain Mattan

Rana Asfour reviews the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Nadifa Mohamed based on the true story of a wrongly-convicted...

MARCH 7, 2022 • By TMR
“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”

“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”

Letter from the Editor: Russia’s Attack on Ukraine seen from European and Middle Eastern Vantage Points

FEBRUARY 24, 2022 • By
Nazareth’s Liwan Features Palestinian Singer Haya Zaatry

Nazareth’s Liwan Features Palestinian Singer Haya Zaatry

This month TMR's music critic Melissa Chemam discusses Palestinian arts and "cultural resistance" at Liwan in Nazareth, where...

FEBRUARY 21, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Flash Fiction: “A Wife’s Diary”

Flash Fiction: “A Wife’s Diary”

In this flash fiction translated from Arabic, a woman poet finds herself at first thwarted by her possessive...

FEBRUARY 21, 2022 • By Mbarek Sryfi
“A Tunisian Revolt” — the Rebel Power of Arab Comics

“A Tunisian Revolt” — the Rebel Power of Arab Comics

Writer-translator Nada Ghosn talks to the illustrator of a new graphic novel recounting one of Tunisia's earliest uprisings,...

FEBRUARY 21, 2022 • By I. Rida Mahmood
Fadi Zaghmout’s banned-in-Jordan “Laila”: a TMR Valentine

Fadi Zaghmout’s banned-in-Jordan “Laila”: a TMR Valentine

In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh,...

FEBRUARY 14, 2022 • By Viet Thanh Nguyen
(G)Hosting the Past: On Michael Rakowitz’s “Reapparitions”

(G)Hosting the Past: On Michael Rakowitz’s “Reapparitions”

Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from...

FEBRUARY 7, 2022 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
“The Translator” Brings the Syrian Dilemma to the Big Screen

“The Translator” Brings the Syrian Dilemma to the Big Screen

Jordan Elgrably reviews the recent feature film from directors Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf.

FEBRUARY 7, 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Censorship, Book Burning and Abu Dhabi Orientalism

Censorship, Book Burning and Abu Dhabi Orientalism

Abu Dhabi-based professor Deborah Williams contrasts the new American censorship of "Maus" and Harry Potter book burning with...

FEBRUARY 7, 2022 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
The Conspiracy to Conceal Conspiracies

The Conspiracy to Conceal Conspiracies

Every warm-blooded Arab loves a good conspiracy theory — so, it turns out, do many Americans, observes cultural...

FEBRUARY 7, 2022 • By Munir Atalla
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