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The Invisible Walls, a Meditation on Work and Being

The Invisible Walls, a Meditation on Work and Being

Arab writer Nashwa Nasreldin reflects on her work experiences at home and abroad, and on the meaning of...

1 MAY 2023 • By Nashwa Nasreldin
The Odyssey That Forged a Stronger Athenian

The Odyssey That Forged a Stronger Athenian

An Athens native returns to Greece after a 20-year sojourn across the Mediterranean and Middle East, covering turmoil...

5 MARCH 2023 • By Iason Athanasiadis
End of an Era: Al Saqi Bookshop in London Closes

End of an Era: Al Saqi Bookshop in London Closes

Malu Halasa surveys the legacy of Al Saqi while also lamenting the end of Banipal Magazine and the...

16 JANUARY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
The Game of Self—How I Wrote The Buddha of Suburbia

The Game of Self—How I Wrote The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi reminisces on how he came to write his first novel, a coming-of-age saga set in 1970s...

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Fadi Zaghmout
A London Murder Mystery Leads to Jihadis and Syria

A London Murder Mystery Leads to Jihadis and Syria

Ghazi Gheblawi reviews "The Darkness Inside," a literary thriller set in the world of social media and foreign...

3 OCTOBER 2022 • By Nadje Al-Ali
Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”

Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”

The filmmaker behind "Tell Spring Not to Come This Year" and "A Thousand Fires" journeys with Mohammad Bakri...

15 JUNE 2022 • By Saeed Taji Farouky
Meditations on The Ungrateful Refugee

Meditations on The Ungrateful Refugee

Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By TMR
Objective Brits, Subjective Syrians

Objective Brits, Subjective Syrians

"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what...

6 DECEMBER 2021 • By Rana Haddad
From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching...

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By TMR
“Guns and Figs” from Heba Hayek’s new Gaza book

“Guns and Figs” from Heba Hayek’s new Gaza book

TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from the new book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek’s vignettes of a...

1 AUGUST 2021 • By Aomar Boum
Gazan Skies, from the novel “Out of It”

Gazan Skies, from the novel “Out of It”

There are times when you can think of little else but escaping your present reality, as Rashid does...

14 JULY 2021 • By Claudia Wiens
From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary

From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary

Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids)...

14 MAY 2021 • By Frances Zaid
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