Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline
Sarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds of beauty.
Words of Resistance: Nasim Marashi, Syaman Rapongan & Isabelle Sorente
Lou Heliot presents a portrait of three engagé novelists who make literature the locus of their resistance.
The Failure of Postcolonial Modernity in Siddhartha Deb’s Light
Anis Shivani finds that Siddhartha Deb’s “outright denial of human agency sets him apart from even the most dire modernists.”
Why Isn’t Ghaith Abdul-Ahad a Household Name?
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent’s new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.
The End of the Palestinian State? Jenin Is Only the Beginning
Yousef M. Aljamal surmises renewed attacks on Jenin signal Israel’s intention to end Palestinian hopes for statehood.
Reviving the Nay Tradition in Jordan
Jordanian Rabee’ Zureikat is on a mission to restore severed links to the Arab past by reviving a musical heritage, one nay at a time.
Neither Explosions Nor Inflation Have Sunk Beirut’s Bookshops
Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.
Joyce Mansour
Syrian Jewish, Egyptian and French, Joyce Mansour was a profilic poet and Surrealist.
Sudeep Sen
TMR presents one of India’s most prized poets with four poems from his latest, “Red.”
Stories From The Markaz, Stories From the Center
TMR’s literary editor introduces the 2023 double summer literary issue.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
A moving testimony to life, death, and the human condition by an Egyptian journalist who was blessed, and cursed.
Arrival in the Dark—fiction from Alireza Iranmehr
Away from prying eyes, two lonely people pass time together under the state of emergency that has become Iran.