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1 November, 2024 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Lin May Saeed

The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated the animal world.

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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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12 June, 2024 • Somaia Ramish

Three Poems by Somaia Ramish

Somaia Ramish's poems, originally in Persian, decry violence against women, underage or forced marriage, poverty and the impact of extremism and war.

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3 May, 2024 • Reem Alghazzi, Manal Shalaby

Freedom—Ruminations of a Syrian Refugee

It is obvious that we will never forget; but it is unclear how to proceed with “un-forgetting" writes Reem Alghazzi on her experience of the Syrian revolution.

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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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4 February, 2024 • Naima Morelli

Intimacy & Our Inner Sanctuary—an Interview with Rana Samara

For Palestinian artist Rana Samara, intimacy is not just about love and sex, but is a mixture of connection, comfort and feeling at home.

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26 June, 2023 • Christina Paschyn

Queer Khaleejis and Western Biases—Individual Freedom at Stake

Christina Paschyn talks to queer activists in the Gulf who challenge the Western narrative on oppression and freedom for the LGBTQ community.

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4 June, 2023 • Arthur Kayzakian

Arthur Kayzakian, The Book of Redacted Paintings

Armenian Iranian immigrant poet Arthur Kayzakian presents his debut poetry collection with a video and excerpts.

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5 March, 2023 • Leila Aboulela

“Raise Your Head High”—new fiction from Leila Aboulela

Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising in Tahrir Square.

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30 January, 2023 • TMR

Letters From Tehran: Braving Tehran’s Roundabout, Maidan Valiasr

A journalist in Tehran walks defiantly without covering her hair through one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.

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15 December, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Gultrah Sound System: Tunisia’s Sound of Freedom

Melissa Chemam explores the Tunisian neo-rap and reggae group from Tunisia that sings for social and political freedom.

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15 August, 2022 • Abdullah Chahin

Letter to the Editor Re “Questionable Thinking on Syria”

Dr. Abdullah Chahin, author of a book on the Syrian quagmire, responds to the TMR review of his book.

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4 July, 2022 • Sahar Mustafah

“The Peacock” — a story by Sahar Mustafah

A Palestinian woman battles both the patriarchy and the occupation to free herself from the toxic jurisdiction men have claimed over her.

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15 June, 2022 • Bakytiyar Ali

Bakhtiyar Ali: “The Prisoner and the Plague”

From one of the most prominent contemporary authors and poets from Iraqi Kurdistan comes an unforgettable tale of oppression, and freedom.

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15 October, 2021 • India Hixon Radfar

Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

India Hixon Radfar reviews the newly-translated collection of poetry from a former prisoner in Syria.

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