New SWANA films respond to genocide and starvation while urging viewers to act beyond passive consumption of the...
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5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Robert BociagaOur senior editor in Beirut, Lina Mounzer, relates intimately to the theme of TMR 53, having experienced civil...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Lina MounzerSudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return...
2 MAY 2025 • By Ati MetwalyThree documentaries screened in Thessaloniki shed light on conflicts often absent from international media headlines.
28 MARCH 2025 • By Iason AthanasiadisDallia Abdel-Moniem has always loved her native city, but when she returned from abroad 10 years ago, it...
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dallia Abdel-MoniemDavid Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and...
26 JUNE 2023 • By David RifeYasmine Motawy interviews the critically-acclaimed Sudanese novelist and short story writer, Leila Aboulela.
29 MAY 2023 • By Yasmine MotawyTMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.
29 MAY 2023 • By Rana AsfourMalu Halasa finds unexpected tastes, pleasures and upsets at the 2023 London Book Fair.
1 MAY 2023 • By Malu HalasaPoet Becky Thompson talks about her new collection of poems devoted to the migrant crisis and the struggle...
15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Becky ThompsonIn which Egyptian-Syrian-French journalist and novelist Robert Solé considers the Arab awakenings across the region.
14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Mischa Geracoulis