Lebanon

Three Levantine Tales

Three Levantine Tales

Writer, translator and artist Nouha Hamad tells three tales passed down as family legend connecting the 19th and...

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner

How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner

Translators Nadiyah Abdullatif and Anam Zafar bring us Lena Merhej's classic graphic novel on Merhej’s mother’s journey from...

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Sibeal Gordon
Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Etel Adnan’s Sun and Sea: In Remembrance

Art critic Arie Amaya-Akkermans summons the gods of art and poetry as he reviews the life work of...

19 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

Diary of the Collapse—Charif Majdalani on Lebanon’s Trials by Fire

A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison

Memoirs of a Militant, My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison

An exclusive excerpt from the memoirs of Nawal Qasim Baidoun, the Lebanese militant imprisoned by Israel.

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Nawal Qasim Baidoun
Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Aomar Boum
Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History

Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History

The Lebanese cartoonist and BD historian George “Jad” Khoury gives an in-depth overview of contemporary comix across the...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By George Jad Khoury
Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
World Picks: August 2021

World Picks: August 2021

Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...

12 AUGUST 2021 • By Fouad Mami
Remember 18:07 and Light a Flame for Beirut

Remember 18:07 and Light a Flame for Beirut

We remember the devastating blast at the Port of Beirut last August 4th, 2020, and call for justice...

4 AUGUST 2021 • By
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