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5 July, 2024 • Katie Logan

Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with only one voice.

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21 June, 2024 • Victoria Lupton

Creating Community with Community Theatre

A community theatre company working in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine empowers women who often are not professional actors.

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24 May, 2024 • Fari Bradley

Our Review of transfeminisms

A major exhibition at Mimosa House aims to address pressing and unresolved issues faced by women, queer, and trans people across the world.

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3 March, 2024 • Rana Asfour

Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, offers four books to challenge the world as we know it.

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26 June, 2023 • Philip Grant

Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Philip Grant took a look at a vast Los Angeles art exhibition that presents 75 independent Arab and Muslim women artists.

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5 February, 2023 • Nada Ghosn

Zahra Ali, Pioneer of Feminist Studies on Iraq

Nada Ghosn talks to sociologist Zahra Ali, author of "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation."

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15 October, 2022 • TMR

You Don’t Have to Be A Super Hero to Be a Heroine

In the new issue of TMR, the editors present their case for everyday women achieving the extraordinary as they overcome adversity.

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15 October, 2022 • Jean-Philippe Cazier

The Life of Malika in Vivre à ta lumière

Jean-Philippe Cazier reviews the latest novel in French from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa, written in memory of his mother.

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6 June, 2021 • Myriam Gurba

Spare Me the Empathy Tantrum: Rafia Zakaria’s “Against White Feminism”

Myriam Gurba reviews a book that argues that some "white feminists accept the benefits conferred by white supremacy at the expense of people of color."

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15 November, 2020 • TMR

Is White Feminism the De Facto Weapon of White Supremacy?

Rana Asfour reviews White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad—"an explosive book of history and cultural criticism" that argues "white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and women of color."

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