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1 November, 2024 • Nina Hubinet

Palestinian Artists Reflect on the Role of Art in Catastrophic Times

Multimedia and performing artists gather in Marseille for the 8th Biennale "Sin," on how to be a Palestinian artist after October 7th.

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25 October, 2024 • TMR

November World Picks from the Editors

Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

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2 August, 2024 • TMR

World Picks from the Editors: AUGUST

Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

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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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31 May, 2024 • TMR

World Picks From The Editors: June 1 — June 14

TMR editors highlight their picks of events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.

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4 February, 2024 • Mohammad Shawky Hassan

Don’t Ask me to Reveal my Lover’s Name لا تسألوني ما اسمهُ حبيبي

Mohammad Shawky Hassan reflects on the original story that informed the making of "Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?” two years after its world premiere.

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2 July, 2023 • Ola Mustapha

We Saw Paris, Texas—a story by Ola Mustapha

In Ola Mustapha's new story, a man falls for the seduction of a film and it becomes the blueprint for love, life, and even death.

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2 April, 2023 • Sophia Al-Maria

The Gaze of the Sci-fi Wahabi

Author of "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky," Sophia Al-Maria reimagines the future of the Gulf region where she grew up.

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5 March, 2023 • Saeed Taji Farouky

More Photographs Taken From The Pocket of a Dead Arab

Filmmaker and educator Saeed Taji Farouky argues that the Palestine of memories is often the only Palestine we have.

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15 July, 2022 • Farah Abdessamad

War and Trauma in Yemen: Asim Abdulaziz’s “1941”

Farah Abdessamad considers generations of survivors in Yemen's first experimental film.

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