Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...
30 MAY, 2025 • By TMR
A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.
23 MAY, 2025 • By IASON ATHANASIADIS
The curator of the "Art of the Palestinian Poster" exhibition interviews two documentarians on their film "A Bunch of Questions With No Answers."
23 MAY, 2025 • By MALU HALASA
Souseh answers a letter from a reader wondering how to handle her younger sister, who is enamored of conspiracy theories.
23 MAY, 2025 • By SOUSEH
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
16 MAY, 2025 • By LYNZY BILLING
Embattled Algerian-French author Kamel Daoud won France’s most prestigious literary prize for a story he is accused of stealing.
16 MAY, 2025 • By LARA VERGNAUD
Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.
16 MAY, 2025 • By JIM QUILTY
May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.
15 MAY, 2025 • By TMR
This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world in crisis.
09 MAY, 2025 • By LARA VERGNAUD
Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
09 MAY, 2025 • By JORDAN ELGRABLY
Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family saga.
09 MAY, 2025 • By ELENA PARE
Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.
02 MAY, 2025 • By ANNA BADKHEN
