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Why Out of Our Minds?

Why Out of Our Minds?

Our senior editor in Beirut, Lina Mounzer, relates intimately to the theme of TMR 53, having experienced civil...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
Trauma After Gaza

Trauma After Gaza

Joelle M. Abi-Rached reflects on the failures of psychiatry and psychiatric language in addressing the trauma arising from...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Joelle Abi-Rached
Ali Cherri’s show at Marseille’s [mac] Is Watching You

Ali Cherri’s show at Marseille’s [mac] Is Watching You

Ali Cherri’s new show in Marseille, on view through the 4th of January 2026, deconstructs the museum from...

AUGUST 15, 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Ziad Rahbani: The Making of a Lebanese Jazz Legend

Ziad Rahbani: The Making of a Lebanese Jazz Legend

A look at Ziad Rahbani's life and legacy, and the man who first introduced him to the jazz...

AUGUST 8, 2025 • By Diran Mardirian
Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

Following the banishment of Bashar Al-Assad, Syrian artists are starting to return and exhibit new work at home...

JULY 4, 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems

Jawdat Fakreddine Presents Three Poems

A major name in Arabic poetry, Jawdat Fakhreddine establishes a revolutionary dialogue between international, modernist values and the...

MAY 20, 2025 • By Jawdat Fakhreddine
Contretemps, a Bold Film on Lebanon’s Crises

Contretemps, a Bold Film on Lebanon’s Crises

Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.

MAY 16, 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Heartbreak and Commemoration in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

Heartbreak and Commemoration in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's...

MARCH 7, 2025 • By Sabah Haider
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s Defiant Exploration of Palestinian Life

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s Defiant Exploration of Palestinian Life

Zahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their...

DECEMBER 20, 2024 • By Zahra Hankir
Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic...

DECEMBER 6, 2024 • By Katie Logan
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