Gaza

Two New Books Show How Gaza Changed the World

Two New Books Show How Gaza Changed the World

For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there...

13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
On Legal Victories and Human Healing

On Legal Victories and Human Healing

In a world where justice and law reliably fail us, it might be literature that holds the better...

13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Small Moments and Their Much Larger Meaning

Small Moments and Their Much Larger Meaning

In "This Arab Life," Amal Ghandour looks at the absurdity of Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza.

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Behind the Seen: Mona Hatoum on Art and Palestine

Behind the Seen: Mona Hatoum on Art and Palestine

Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum keeps returning to the same questions: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized? And...

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
How Can Palestinians and Israelis Live Together?

How Can Palestinians and Israelis Live Together?

Raja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Raja Shehadeh
With Hasan in Gaza: Salvaged Palestine

With Hasan in Gaza: Salvaged Palestine

Kamal Aljafari's new-old film historicizes Gaza in its demise.

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Jim Quilty
In Two New Books, Palestinian Writing Bears Witness

In Two New Books, Palestinian Writing Bears Witness

Palestinian artists have long turned their people’s struggle into vibrant expression.

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Gabriel Polley
You Must Live: A Collection of Palestinian Poetry

You Must Live: A Collection of Palestinian Poetry

Immediacy matters in this collection because it fundamentally alters how the poems should be read — not "about"...

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Sholeh Wolpé
Letter from Gaza: Our Long Wait for Gas

Letter from Gaza: Our Long Wait for Gas

Coffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Esraa Abo Qamar
Letter from Gaza: Stuck in Place

Letter from Gaza: Stuck in Place

A young writer reports that safe transportation remains dangerously scarce.

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Mariam Mushtaha
Terms of Servitude and the Threats of Digital Settler Colonialism

Terms of Servitude and the Threats of Digital Settler Colonialism

Omar Zahzah demonstrates how Big Tech and social media platforms threaten freedoms and promote violent interests.

28 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Maura Finkelstein
Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian

Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian

Jadd Hilal is French, Palestinian, and Lebanese. In this interview with TMR, he parses national identities.

7 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
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