TMR 52

10 stories centered around a critical theme, published monthly and curated with care.

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7 MARCH, 2025

Why Love, War & Resistance?

Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?

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Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Salar Abdoh

Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Ati Metwaly

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Writer Mai Al-Nakib explores the fictions of homecoming and the potentialities of exile.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib

Arabic Jazz and Yazz Ahmed: A Music Between Homelands

Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Gabriel Polley

A Letter To My Cruel Lover: Tripoli

Poet Lara Kassem explores her conflicted feelings about home, identity, and longing.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Lara Kassem

The anger and sadness I brought back from Damascus. And the urge to shave my head

Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in Australia.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Batoul Ahmad

Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Sophia Didinova

“Return to Ramallah,” an excerpt from Too Soon by Betty Shamieh

Shamieh's novel invites the audience to reflect on notions of home and the multifaceted nature of belonging.

02 MAY, 2025 • By Betty Shamieh

Why Love, War & Resistance?

Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably

Love and Resistance in Online Persian Dating Shows

From blindfolding potential dates to threating them with cockroaches, Iranian YouTube dating game shows go viral and the regime takes action.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Malu Halasa

Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat’s latest solo show explores the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity, and love.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Naima Morelli
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