Alex Demyanenko argues there is a better film trying to break free — the urgency is real, even...
12 DECEMBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko
When Ala Younis came to Abu Dhabi, she learned buildings were torn down and rebuilt in 20-year cycles...
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
A reflective short story that explores friendships, longing, and nostalgia for home.
3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Aya Chalabee
The Orchards of Basra weaves together elements of dreams, memory, and forgotten philosophy, insisting that some stories cannot...
12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Jacob Wirtschafter
In Iraq, buildings don’t simply reflect ideology — they absorb it, transmit it, and sometimes resist it. Especially...
4 JULY 2025 • By Meriam Othman
Sama Alshaibi’s new project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a...
2 MAY 2025 • By Yasmine Al Awa
Ashour’s "Granada" trilogy arrives during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and a long arc completes...
17 JANUARY 2025 • By Guy Mannes-Abbott
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein
Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.
3 MAY 2024 • By Nabil Salih
Feurat Alani, a French novelist of Iraqi descent, succeeds in capturing the connections between two disparate cultural spheres.
1 APRIL 2024 • By Nada Ghosn
Michael Scott Moore channels veteran experiences through a wily cat as an Iraq war vet tries to readapt...
11 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Michael Scott Moore
Novelist Elizabeth Louden joins TMR's Book Club moderated by Rana Asfour.
2 AUGUST 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
