TMR 52

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

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  • 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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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

The Felines that Leave Us, and the Humans that Left

An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her pets well into adulthood.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri, Salar Abdoh

Pigeon Love

When Yahia Lababidi finds a bird egg in a flowerpot on his balcony, he ends up raising generations of wild pigeons, bonding with their young.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Yahia Lababidi

The Palestinian Gazelle

Artist Manal Mahamid shares the evolution of her exhibition, The Palestinian Gazelle, reflecting on the paradox of colonialism.

01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Manal Mahamid

A Year of War Without End

In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the horror of the past year, and hopelessness as we confront endless war.

04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Lina Mounzer

Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon

Tom Young's art raises important questions about studying images and the lasting impact of colonialism in the Arab world.

04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Ziad Suidan

Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

After a year of the war on Gaza, signs and symbols, art, and visuals from and about Palestine are still being banned, dismissed, or ignored.

04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa

Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth

Israel’s war on Gaza and Palestinians in the West Bank has prompted dissent around the world that refuses to be silenced.

04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably

Shamrocks & Watermelons: Palestine Politics in Belfast

Through a conflicted prism, the effect of the year-long war in Gaza on the music and politics of Northern Ireland. 

04 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Stuart Bailie
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