World Picks From The Editors: May 17 — May 31
TMR editors highlight the best events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.
Postscript: Disrupting the Colonial Gaze—Gaza and Israel after October 7th
In which the authors argue that, “If Israel, with Western support, achieves its aims in Gaza, it will constitute the end of fellowship among inhabitants of this planet.”
Demarcations of Identity: Rushdi Anwar
From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s new show.
This Year in Venice, it’s the “Palestine Biennale”
At this year’s Venice Biennale, Palestine looms large, writes Hadani Ditmars.
Sahar Muradi presents two poems from OCTOBERS
Heartbreak and echoes, as a poet recalls the US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter.
Moheb Soliman presents two poems from HOMES
Far from his first country, a poet maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands of eastern Ontario.
Why FORGETTING?
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good? The editors inquire.
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting
Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.
Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”
Gazan artist Hazem Harb remembers and celebrates the old, new, destroyed, erased and dead of Palestine in a personal response to a nasty war.
Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering
Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
Saleem Haddad reviews the Sawalha family story that offers hope in resilience, resistance, and survival against all odds.