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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“Eve”—fantasy from Afghanistan

When Eve leaves Adam in Purgatory to settle their score once and for all, she's devastated by what she encounters on Earth.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Parand, Abdul Bacet Khurram

“The Small Clay Plate”—a Siwa folk tale

A tale of a tailor from the deserts of Siwa, Egypt, where fortune reveals the invaluable lesson of recognizing what is truly precious.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Bel Parker

“Ghosts of Farsis” — a cyberpunk story

 The story is part of Hussein Fawzy's cyberpunk story collection “Graduation Project” recently published by Waziz House.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Hussein Fawzy, Rana Asfour

The Conqueror of Time—Egyptian Cryogenics

Nihad Sherif's 1972 novel is a pioneering Arabic sci-fi work on human cryopreservation, with prose reminiscent of Mahfouz and Taha Hussein.

06 DECEMBER, 2024 • By Nihad Sherif, Lina Mounzer

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
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