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Arabic Was the Guest at This Year’s Avignon Festival

Arabic Was the Guest at This Year’s Avignon Festival

Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's...

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie
Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo presents two poems from his collection "Spectral Evidence."

24 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Gregory Pardlo
Creating Community with Community Theatre

Creating Community with Community Theatre

A community theatre company working in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine empowers women who often are not professional actors.

21 JUNE 2024 • By Victoria Lupton
As We Near the End (or What Adorno Said)

As We Near the End (or What Adorno Said)

In his play, Youssef El Guindi debates whether art is merely a distraction or if it can truly...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Yussef El Guindi
The Return of Danton—a Play by Mudar Alhaggi & Collective Ma’louba

The Return of Danton—a Play by Mudar Alhaggi & Collective Ma’louba

A play about the French Revolution highlights the experiences of Syrian actors and theatre makers as artists in...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Mudar Alhaggi
World Picks From The Editors: June 1 — June 14

World Picks From The Editors: June 1 — June 14

TMR editors highlight their picks of events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.

31 MAY 2024 • By TMR
Messages from Gaza Now / 2

Messages from Gaza Now / 2

Firsthand accounts of the war by Hossam Madhoun, a theatre-maker reporting from the rubble of Gaza.

18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages From Gaza Now

Messages From Gaza Now

A Gazan theatre artist, constantly endangered by the onslaught of Israeli planes, drones and bombs, writes from the...

11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
Lebanese Thespian Aida Sabra Blossoms in International Career

Lebanese Thespian Aida Sabra Blossoms in International Career

Acclaimed by French critics for her performance in Wajdi Mouawad’s "Mère," Aida Sabra stars in a play on...

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Nada Ghosn
The Ship No One Wanted—a story by Hassan Abdulrazak

The Ship No One Wanted—a story by Hassan Abdulrazak

Can a crush on a teacher survive marriage, revolution, and a sinking, refugee dingy on the Mediterranean Sea?

2 JULY 2023 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
“Holy Land”—short fiction from Asim Rizki

“Holy Land”—short fiction from Asim Rizki

Amal, a student who lives in a Palestinian refugee camp, takes up drama as an outlet for the...

27 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Asim Rizki
Two Ways to See Morocco from Across the Mediterranean

Two Ways to See Morocco from Across the Mediterranean

Nora Ounnas Leroy talks to three Moroccan artists participating in a Montpellier incubator project through the Festival Arabesques.

26 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Nora Ounnas Leroy
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