Lebanon’s Fate in Our Current World Calamity
Perpetually attacked by Israel as an easy target and neighbor, Lebanon is bearing the brunt of many bombs in today’s war.
We Live in a Time of Monsters
Our senior editor writes from Beirut as Israeli warplanes and drones search for new targets across the city.
قصة قصيرة لبلال علاء: بكل ما تحمله الكلمة من معنى
يستعيد بلال علاء ذكريات الشباب، الحب والثورة والحرية، بعد مرور سنوات عليها، ليكتشف في النهاية أهمية سوسن عبد الكريم.
قصة قصيرة لزينب خضور: الكلمات التي لا تغرق
عن رحلة هروب وبحث عن حياة جديدة هادئة، تكتب زينب خضور قصة قصيرة رائعة، تبدأ مع الشتاء والحرب، وتنتهي عند الحرف العربي ولقمة المكدوس.
Of Mother Tongues and Sleeping Orchids
Mother tongues, endlessly chimeric, endlessly beguiling, can become both dangerous baggage and precious commodity.
Universal Words, the Art of Mariem Abutaleb
In which a young artist goes beyond words, beyond language, to create meaning with signs and symbols of her own creation.
“It’s Not ‘Whatever’”: On Mother Tongue, Exile, and Inheritance
A Lebanese poet in California, Zeina Hashem Beck tends to the tension between Arabic and English, grief and joy, and the inheritance of our mother tongues.
Three Artists, Five Writers on Mother Tongues
TMR asked a group of writers and artists how they negotiate identity between a mother tongue and other languages.
Language and the Mother Eternal
A reflection on how multiple languages in a family become a perfect conduit for grief and acceptance.
Culture Got Your Tongue
A writer questions whether physical ailments — numbness, stuttering, uncontrollable trembling — may in fact stem from a cultural silencing, in this case of Turkish identity and belonging.
Ojalá: Toward an Illiteracy of Liberation
In the wake of Gaza genocide, a Palestinian American loses her words — until she finds her way back to language in another tongue.
English and My Mother’s Ghost
A writer traces the circuitous journey of a mother tongue, English and not Arabic.