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Three Artists, Five Writers on Mother Tongues

Three Artists, Five Writers on Mother Tongues

TMR's Editor-in-Chief, curious about how people negotiate their identity between a mother tongue and other languages, asked a...

6 MARCH 2026 • By Jordan Elgrably
Language and the Mother Eternal

Language and the Mother Eternal

A reflection on how multiple languages in a family become a perfect conduit for grief and acceptance.

6 MARCH 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
“Words That Don’t Sink”—a short story

“Words That Don’t Sink”—a short story

A simple debate over a spoon opens a space in which a group of Syrian migrants reclaim an...

6 MARCH 2026 • By Zeinab Ghassan Khaddour
Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There

Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.

2 MAY 2025 • By Myriam Cohenca
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.

2 MAY 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work...

4 APRIL 2025 • By Youssef Rakha
Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo presents two poems from his collection "Spectral Evidence."

24 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Gregory Pardlo
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud —A Review

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud —A Review

An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of...

31 MAY 2024 • By Katherine A. Powers
What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love

What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love

Eman Quotah reviews a new anthology of love poems by Arab poets writing in English in the diaspora...

23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Eman Quotah
The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

Exile retold through embroidered Palestinian stories, by documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi.

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Rasha Al Jundi
Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Academic and novelist Layla AlAmmar interrogates her life's creative and scholarly achievements against the teachings of Edward Said.

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Layla AlAmmar
“Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”—fiction from Dina Abou Salem

“Kaleidoscope: In Pursuit of the Real in a Virtual World”—fiction from Dina Abou Salem

Caught between Beirut and a town in the Californian desert, Buthayna searches for the meaning amid life’s absurdities.

1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dina Abou Salem
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