Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...
25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...
21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything...
7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Baxtyar Hamasur
TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein
Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under...
5 JULY 2024 • By Diaa Jubaili
From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s...
10 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...
3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
