 
						
						The Orchards of Basra, a novel by Mansoura Ez-Eldin Interlink Publishing 2025 ISBN 9781626499815 Mansoura Ez-Eldin’s The Orchards...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 • By Jacob Wirtschafter 
						
						Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for...
JULY 11, 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans 
						
						In Iraq, buildings don’t simply reflect ideology — they absorb it, transmit it, and sometimes resist it. Especially...
JULY 4, 2025 • By Meriam Othman 
						
						Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...
JUNE 20, 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak 
						
						Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...
APRIL 25, 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak 
						
						An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
MARCH 21, 2025 • By Deborah Williams 
						
						Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything...
FEBRUARY 7, 2025 • By Jiyar Homer 
						
						TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 • By Malu Halasa 
						
						The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated...
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans 
						
						Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein