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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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

Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

History writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a connecting point rather than a delimited void.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Todd Reisz

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Malu Halasa

The Closed Door — Return to Syria

After 13 years away, writer Odai Al Zoubi returns to Syria following the Assad regime's collapse, aiming to reconnect with a lost time.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Odai Al Zoubi, Rana Asfour

“The Last Third of the Night”—a story by Dia Barghouti

A woman invited to a wedding wants to leave her house and return, but only if she can be certain of the return.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Dia Barghouti

Baxtyar Hamasur: “A Strand of Hair Shaped Like the Letter J”

Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything as a story,” he says.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Baxtyar Hamasur, Jiyar Homer, Hannah Fox

Flight Plans: From Gaza to Singapore

Palestinian civil aviation is not only a symbol of freedom, but is deeply connected to their quest for sovereignty.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Chin-chin Yap

Chronicles of a Boy Manqué

Growing up a "Boy Hassan" in Syria, Rana Haddad rejected societal conventions.

07 FEBRUARY, 2025 • By Rana Haddad

Escapism in Times of War — on Genre Fiction

In which our literary editor becomes your guide through TMR 47, a double issue packed with fiction and the last monthly issue of 2024.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa

“Not a Picture, a Precise Kick”—metafiction

A writer from Cairo imagines a chance encounter between two writers in Prague enamored of Kafka. 

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Fatima El-Kalay
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