Can love transform in the face of bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation, and expulsion?
READ MORETMR'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 GhassanNaima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Naima MorelliAn 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 MansoubiCan 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 HashmiAn 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 AbdohWhen 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 LababidiArtist Manal Mahamid shares the evolution of her exhibition, The Palestinian Gazelle, reflecting on the paradox of colonialism.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Manal MahamidIn 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 MounzerTom 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