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The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable

A TMR roundtable on refugees, migration, identity and finding home.

7 MARCH 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Yemen War Survivors Speak in What Have You Left Behind?

Yemen War Survivors Speak in What Have You Left Behind?

Saliha Haddad reviews the English translation of Bushra al-Maqtari's book of oral histories on those who survived the...

20 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Saliha Haddad
Arab Women’s War Stories, Oral Histories from Lebanon

Arab Women’s War Stories, Oral Histories from Lebanon

Evelyne Accad reviews a new book on Lebanese women and war, a collection of oral stories told in...

13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Evelyne Accad
Mohamed Makhzangi Despairs at Man’s Cruelty to Animals

Mohamed Makhzangi Despairs at Man’s Cruelty to Animals

Saliha Haddad reviews the new translation of a major collection of short stories by the Egyptian author.

26 DECEMBER 2022 • By Saliha Haddad
Museums in Exile—MO.CO’s show for Chile, Sarajevo & Palestine

Museums in Exile—MO.CO’s show for Chile, Sarajevo & Palestine

Jordan Elgrably tours the MO.CO exhibition in Montpellier devoted to the people of Chile, Sarajevo and Palestine.

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author

We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia, the novel by Salar Abdoh, and Meet the Author

THE JANUARY BOOKGROUP SELECTION IS is Out of Mesopotamia, by Salar Abdoh (no bookgroup meeting in December). The discussion...

28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Biswajit Sengupta
You Don’t Have to Be A Super Hero to Be a Heroine

You Don’t Have to Be A Super Hero to Be a Heroine

In the new issue of TMR, the editors present their case for everyday women achieving the extraordinary as...

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By TMR
Ziad Kalthoum: Trajectory of a Syrian Filmmaker

Ziad Kalthoum: Trajectory of a Syrian Filmmaker

Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Abundant Middle Eastern Talent at the ’22 Avignon Theatre Fest

Abundant Middle Eastern Talent at the ’22 Avignon Theatre Fest

Nada Ghosn revels in the artistry of Palestinian, Iranian, Lebanese, Afghan and other playwrights and performers in Avignon...

18 JULY 2022 • By I. Rida Mahmood
War and Trauma in Yemen: Asim Abdulaziz’s “1941”

War and Trauma in Yemen: Asim Abdulaziz’s “1941”

Farah Abdessamad considers generations of survivors in Yemen's first experimental film.

15 JULY 2022 • By Danielle Haque
Art Film Depicts the Landlocked Drama of Nagorno-Karabakh

Art Film Depicts the Landlocked Drama of Nagorno-Karabakh

Taline Voskeritchian reviews the latest film from Nora Martirosyan about the tiny country fought over by Armenia and...

2 MAY 2022 • By Abbas Baydoun
Nowruz and The Sins of the New Day

Nowruz and The Sins of the New Day

Guest columnist Maha Tourbah considers the advent of the Spring Equinox, Zoroastrian Nowruz and hopes for peace.

21 MARCH 2022 • By Micaela Amateau Amato
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