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A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

No one in Lebanon is ever out of the fray, not even those who are very far away...

27 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive...

27 MARCH 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Iranian Visions of Democracy from the Ruins

Iranian Visions of Democracy from the Ruins

Iranians emerging from the rubble of war have their own struggle ahead. But the lessons travel: resistance has...

20 MARCH 2026 • By Nojang Khatami
The AI Struggle for Middle Earth in the U.S.-Israel War on Iran

The AI Struggle for Middle Earth in the U.S.-Israel War on Iran

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming battlegrounds, and is at the heart of many international assassinations.

13 MARCH 2026 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Lebanon’s Fate in Our Current World Calamity

Lebanon’s Fate in Our Current World Calamity

Perpetually attacked by Israel as an easy target and neighbor, Lebanon is bearing the brunt of many bombs...

13 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Two New Books Show How Gaza Changed the World

Two New Books Show How Gaza Changed the World

For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there...

13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Behind the Seen: Mona Hatoum on Art and Palestine

Behind the Seen: Mona Hatoum on Art and Palestine

Hatoum keeps returning to the same question: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized?

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Adedayo Agarau presents The Years of Blood

Adedayo Agarau presents The Years of Blood

In "The Years of Blood" a Nigerian poet grapples with the violence of a nation struggling to find...

1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Adedayo Agarau
War and War

War and War

Winner of the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize — A foreign correspondent confronts devastation and violence before crossing a...

26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Hussain A. Ayoub
Why Out of Our Minds?

Why Out of Our Minds?

Our senior editor in Beirut, Lina Mounzer, relates intimately to the theme of TMR 53, having experienced civil...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
Trauma After Gaza

Trauma After Gaza

Joelle M. Abi-Rached reflects on the failures of psychiatry and psychiatric language in addressing the trauma arising from...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Joelle Abi-Rached
“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
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