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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
“A Love That Endures”: How Tamer and Sabreen Defied War and Death

“A Love That Endures”: How Tamer and Sabreen Defied War and Death

In Gaza, where airstrikes define life, two lovers still find a way to connect in a landscape scarred...

JULY 25, 2025 • By Husam Maarouf
Aida Šehović on the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide

Aida Šehović on the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide

Bosnian-American artist Šehović marks the Srebrenica Genocide with an installation of cups filled with coffee — unsweetened and...

JULY 18, 2025 • By Claudia Mende
Nasser Rabah on Poetry and Gaza

Nasser Rabah on Poetry and Gaza

Gaza's senior poet Nasser Rabah presents two poems from his first collected works in English, new from City...

JULY 4, 2025 • By Nasser Rabah
Afraid for Our Children’s Future, How Do We Talk About War?

Afraid for Our Children’s Future, How Do We Talk About War?

Souseh counsels hope and continued resistance to an anxious mother worried about her kids in dangerous times.

JUNE 20, 2025 • By Souseh
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
Afghanistan’s Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires

Afghanistan’s Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires

A new exhibition unravels the entangled histories and cultures of Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Western Europe through...

MARCH 7, 2025 • By Jelena Sofronijevic
Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Jim Quilty interviews Paris-based Gazan artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut about his new show, "Just in Case" at...

FEBRUARY 21, 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Annahita Mahdavi West: Two Poems

Annahita Mahdavi West: Two Poems

Iranian American poet Annahita Mahdavi West presents two poems, "Exile" and "City of War" from her book "Dusty...

DECEMBER 19, 2024 • By Annahita Mahdavi West
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