Dear Souseh: Existential Advice for Third World Problems
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Why LOVE, WAR & RESISTANCE?
Can love act as a transformative force during challenging times, in the face of 2000-pound bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation and expulsion?
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 regime takes action.
Mous Lamrabat: Featured Artist
In his latest solo exhibition, Mous Lamrabat delves deep into the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity and love.
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 studying her mom's chickens, and roosters.
Manifesto of Love & Revolution
Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere, many others shall take shape elsewhere.
Pigeon Love
When Yahia Lababidi finds a bird egg in a flowerpot on his balcony, he ends up raising generations of wild pigeons, bonding with their young.
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.
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 the 14th of February.
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 Arab countries, a sexual revolution should come first and foremost.
Don’t Ask me to Reveal my Lover’s Name لا تسألوني ما اسمهُ حبيبي
Mohammad Shawky Hassan reflects on the original story that informed the making of "Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?” two years after its world premiere.
Four Poems by Alaa Hassanien from The Love That Doubles Loneliness
Emotions of modern romance are found in Alaa Hasanin’s "The Love That Doubles Loneliness," translated from Arabic by Salma Moustafa Khalil.
Sarah Ghazal Ali: “Apotheosis,” “Mother of Nations” & “Sarai”
The young award-winning poet Sarah Ghazal Ali shares three poems from her book "Apotheosis" published by Alice James publishing.
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 and in country.
“Kill Yusuf”—a short story by Hisham Al-Najjar
In a modern interpretation of Eros and Thanatos, "Kill Yusuf" reveals how thwarted love can lead to unexpected consequences.