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06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Marcia Lynx QualeyScience fiction and dystopias figure prominently in Arab literature going back more than 100 years, writes Elizabeth Rauh.
06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Elizabeth L. RauhSusan 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 AbulhawaRima 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 LoganThe 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 AhmedTMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Malu HalasaA bombing in Gaza destroys an entire family except for the protagonist of the short story and his beloved dog.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Ghassan GhassanAn 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 MansoubiNaima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Naima MorelliCan 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 BukhariFour artists choose their animals, birds and fish as inspiration, cautionary tale, or metaphor.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Jelena Sofronijevic, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Siobhán Shilton, Charlotte BankIn 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