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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“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

Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by studying her mom's chickens, and roosters.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Rawand Issa, Anam Zafar

Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

In untangling her relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The Prophet" in new ways.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Katie Logan

A Conversation Among My Homeland’s Trees

The Trees spoke above the screams, the fires, the bombs, the droughts, across the oasis, forests, and streams of her homeland.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Alia Yunis

Heartbreak and Commemoration in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

In the southern suburbs of Beirut, women openly grieve those they have lost, in the wake of Israel's latest onslaught.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Sabah Haider

Manifesto of Love & Revolution

Power has thousands of faces in thousands of postures. When you cut off one of its heads somewhere, many others shall take shape elsewhere.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Iskandar Abdalla

Afghanistan’s Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires

A new exhibition unravels the entangled histories and cultures of Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Western Europe through textiles.

07 MARCH, 2025 • By Jelena Sofronijevic

Memoir in the Age of Narcissism

What do we choose to remember, and what do we choose to forget? A special monthly issue devoted to the genre of memoir...

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By TMR

Ravaged by Fire

Francisco Letelier connects the devastation of fire and climate change with the decimation of Gaza and other disasters.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Francisco Letelier
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