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The Haunting Reality of Beirut, My City

The Haunting Reality of Beirut, My City

Roger Assaf's poetic script for Jocelyne Saab's 1982 film about the siege of Beirut puts one in mind...

8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Roger Assaf
“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali

“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali

In Haidar Al Ghazali's short story, a Palestinian father during the war on Gaza makes an impossible choice.

5 JULY 2024 • By Haidar Al Ghazali
Is Amin Maalouf’s Latest Novel, On the Isle of Antioch, a Parody?

Is Amin Maalouf’s Latest Novel, On the Isle of Antioch, a Parody?

Farah-Silvana Kanan questions whether, in this novel, the Franco-Lebanese master is at the height of his powers, or...

14 JUNE 2024 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Dare Not Speak—a One-Act Play

Dare Not Speak—a One-Act Play

A stage director declines producing a play about a child tragically murdered during a genocide, fearing she may...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.

31 MAY 2024 • By Nadine Aranki
Israel’s Environmental and Economic Warfare on Lebanon

Israel’s Environmental and Economic Warfare on Lebanon

Beyond the physical dimension of the current war on Southern Lebanon exists an economic and environmental dimension that...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Michelle Eid
Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

After the ICJ ruling on Israel, it is in its best interests to redefine its cause to one...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
Issam Kourbaj’s Love Letter to Syria in Cambridge

Issam Kourbaj’s Love Letter to Syria in Cambridge

A blood-red line drawn across the form of Syria seems to confirm the nonsensical nature of the country’s...

12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
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
Israel-Palestine: Peace Under Occupation?

Israel-Palestine: Peace Under Occupation?

Laëtitia Soula reports on a French trade union event that presented anti-colonialist writer and publisher Alain Gresh.

29 JANUARY 2024 • By Laëtitia Soula
Brian Turner: 3 Poems From Three New Books

Brian Turner: 3 Poems From Three New Books

After fighting in Iraq, and publishing "Here, Bullet," Brian Turner committed his life to poetry, and has a...

14 JANUARY 2024 • By Brian Turner
Cyprus: Return to Petrofani with Ali Cherri & Vicky Pericleous

Cyprus: Return to Petrofani with Ali Cherri & Vicky Pericleous

Arie Amaya-Akkermans talks to Lebanese and Cypriot artists about their work on the divided island of Cyprus.

8 JANUARY 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
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