TMR 9
WALLS
National populism promotes xenophobia, blaming outsiders and immigrants for our woes. One emotional quick fix is to shun foreigners, building walls to protect homeland security and keep out those who would denigrate the country’s social fabric. Walls are also thrown up between women and men, like the glass ceilings that prevent more people of color and women from getting ahead professionally. The stories in our WALLS issue help us think more clearly about the walls that exist, the walls that need to come down, and the walls inside ourselves.
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- Editorial
Why WALLS?
"I would like to break the walls of ignorance between East and West." Walls and barriers are what we erect when we have no words.
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- CENTERPIECE
We Are All at the Border Now
Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy of walls.
May 14, 2021 • By Todd Miller- TMR 9
- Featured Artist
Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed
Artist Tom Young who divides his time between Beirut and London, paints in Hammam Al Jadid during its revival after 70 years.
May 14, 2021 • By Tom YoungMORE FROM THIS ISSUE
The Murals of “Education is Not a Crime”
Saleem Vaillancourt describes the worldwide mural campaign spearheaded by Maziar Bahari on behalf the Baha'i community to speak out about Iran's persecution of its largest religious minority.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY FRANCES ZAID
Walls, Graffiti and Youth Culture in Egypt, Libya & Tunisia
Former Egypt and Turkey-based photographer Claudia Wiens documents street art of the Arab Spring.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY SALEEM VAILLANCOURT
The Murals of Yemen’s Haifa Subay
Yemen street artist, activist and mother Haifa Subay speaks to Farah Abdessamad about the state of the country and her work.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY DANIELLE HAQUE
The Bathing Partition
In this creative exploration of identity and homelessness, Sheana Ochoa faces her own inner walls and travels to Auschwitz.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY SHEANA OCHOA
Panopticon of Kashmir
Ifat Gazia remembers her native Kashmir and wonders why her family, like countless others, was uprooted, displaced and forced to live like homeless people in their own land.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY IFAT GAZIA
Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?
Taylor Miller explores the aesthetics of gentrification and the "settler colonial hydra that continually displaces, erases, and reinscribes Palestinian space."
14 MAY, 2021 • BY TAYLOR MILLER
Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in
Muralist Francisco Letelier travels to the West Bank to help a Palestinian community confront the Occupation with art.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY FRANCISCO LETELIER
We Are All at the Border Now
Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy of walls.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY TODD MILLER
The World Grows Blackthorn Walls
A new poem by Sholeh Wolpé from the forthcoming collection, Abacus of Loss, University of Arkansas Press 2022.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY TAYLOR MILLER
A Home Across the Azure Sea
We accompany a family fleeing civil war for safe harbor, in a short story by Aida Y. Haddad.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY TODD MILLER
Maqloubeh Behind the Wall in Bethlehem
Chef Fadi Kattan, fed up with walls, Covid and strife with Israel, shares a classic Palestinian recipe.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY ELLA SHOHAT
Reviving Hammam Al Jadeed
Artist Tom Young who divides his time between Beirut and London, paints in Hammam Al Jadid during its revival after 70 years.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY TOM YOUNG
From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary
Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids) with a three-time refugee from the Yarmouk Camp.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY FRANCES ZAID
Maqloubeh Behind the Wall in Bethlehem
Chef Fadi Kattan, fed up with walls, Covid and strife with Israel, shares a classic Palestinian recipe.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY ELLA SHOHAT
The Wall We Can’t Tell You About
There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
14 MAY, 2021 • BY JEAN LAMORE