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Longing for Love in a Time of Genocide

Longing for Love in a Time of Genocide

A woman living in the capital of the United States during fascism and genocide nonetheless yearns for a...

26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Souseh
“A Love That Endures”: How Tamer and Sabreen Defied War and Death

“A Love That Endures”: How Tamer and Sabreen Defied War and Death

In Gaza, where airstrikes define life, two lovers still find a way to connect in a landscape scarred...

25 JULY 2025 • By Husam Maarouf
Dear Souseh: Existential Advice for Third World Problems

Dear Souseh: Existential Advice for Third World Problems

An advice column that tackles personal questions inflected by our greater social, cultural, political, and historical contexts.

4 APRIL 2025 • By Souseh
Why Love, War & Resistance?

Why Love, War & Resistance?

Can love act as a transformative force during challenging times, in the face of 2000-pound bombs, drones, AI surveillance,...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat

In his latest solo exhibition, Mous Lamrabat delves deep into the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity and...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Rawand Issa
Manifesto of Love & Revolution

Manifesto of Love & Revolution

Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere,...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Iskandar Abdalla
Pigeon Love

Pigeon Love

When Yahia Lababidi finds a bird egg in a flowerpot on his balcony, he ends up raising generations...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Yahia Lababidi
Hafez, Iran’s Revered Poet, trans. Erfan Mojib & Gary Gach

Hafez, Iran’s Revered Poet, trans. Erfan Mojib & Gary Gach

Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.

15 JULY 2024 • By Erfan Mojib
Shoot That Poison Arrow to My Heart: The LSD Editorial

Shoot That Poison Arrow to My Heart: The LSD Editorial

Our literary editor, Malu Halasa, introduces TMR 38 • LSD, our Love, Sex and Desire issue, published ahead of...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
LSD in the Arab World: Porn, Sade, and the Next-Door Flasher

LSD in the Arab World: Porn, Sade, and the Next-Door Flasher

In LSD's centerpiece, Joumana Haddad argues that with a dire need for political and economic reforms in most...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
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