TMR 52

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

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  • TMR52
  • EDITORIAL
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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Salacious Criminality—Trenchcoat Detectives, Rogues & Smoking Guns

The Arabic crime novel can't compete with more popular genres including satire, horror, or historical fiction, but that hasn't always been the case.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Marcia Lynx Qualey

Traveling Crafts: The Moon and Science Fiction in Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

Science fiction and dystopias figure prominently in Arab literature going back more than 100 years, writes Elizabeth Rauh.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Elizabeth L. Rauh

Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa gave a speech at Oxford Union as a resolution passed determining "Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide."

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Susan Abulhawa

Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic point always undergoing change.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Katie Logan

“Envy” — a story by Huda Hamed

The ambivalence that leads to the break up of a decade-long marriage must first face a mother's wrathful disappointment.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Huda Hamed, Zia Ahmed

Animal Truths

TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa

“Habib”—a story by Ghassan Ghassan

A bombing in Gaza destroys an entire family except for the protagonist of the short story and his beloved dog.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Ghassan Ghassan

“The Man Who Loves Ducks” from Freedom, Only Freedom

An inmate in Manus prison who suffers the inhospitable conditions with the rest of the inmates finds solace in befriending animals.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Omid Tofighian, Moones Mansoubi

Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Naima Morelli

“The Ballad of Lulu and Amina” — from Jerusalem to Gaza

Can Izzeldin Bukhari bring the cat his sister loves to her wedding in Gaza? Only the IDF and Hamas stand in his way.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Izzeldin Bukhari

Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih

Four artists choose their animals, birds and fish as inspiration, cautionary tale, or metaphor.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Jelena Sofronijevic, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Siobhán Shilton, Charlotte Bank

“Gazelles Leaping”—a story by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

In this Sufi tale, poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi explores the worlds inhabited by gazelles Sahel and Sahara, between the twenty-first century and eternity.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Shadab Zeest Hashmi
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