TMR 52

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

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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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Wajdi Mouawad’s “Controversial” Wedding Day

Al Jadid editor Elie Chalala finds that Lebanese intellectuals’ defense of expat director Wadji Mouawad contrasts with state chokehold on freedom of expression. 

07 JUNE, 2024 • By Elie Chalala

What Kind Of Liar Am I?—a Short Play

An original short play by playwright and theatre maker Mona Mansour: "a short, dark confession in a time of catastrophe."

07 JUNE, 2024 • By Mona Mansour

The Return of Danton—a Play by Mudar Alhaggi & Collective Ma’louba

A play about the French Revolution highlights the experiences of Syrian actors and theatre makers as artists in exile.

07 JUNE, 2024 • By Mudar Alhaggi

Noor and Hadi Go to Hogwarts—a Short Play

Lameece Issaq presents a short play borrowing a popular fantasy world.

07 JUNE, 2024 • By Lameece Issaq

Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer taking on roles that require official approval.

07 JUNE, 2024 • By Mehrnaz Daneshvar, Salar Abdoh

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good? The editors inquire.

03 MAY, 2024 • By Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.

03 MAY, 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib

Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”

Gazan artist Hazem Harb remembers and celebrates the old, new, destroyed, erased and dead of Palestine in a personal response to a nasty war.

03 MAY, 2024 • By Malu Halasa

Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.

03 MAY, 2024 • By Nabil Salih

The Elephant in the Box

Revisiting her memories of Egypt's January 25 revolution, Asmaa Elgamal finds that denying common sense is the worst oppression.

03 MAY, 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal

“Cotton Flower”—a short story by Areej Gamal

Areej Gamal's translated short story from Egypt depicts a potted plant and forbidden love that become intertwined, with an unexpected outcome

03 MAY, 2024 • By Areej Gamal, Manal Shalaby

Bloodied Dispatches—Ahmed Isselmou on the Gaza Carnage

The assault on Gaza is the longest and deadliest Israeli offensive to date, and the worst in targeting journalists and their families.

03 MAY, 2024 • By Ahmed Isselmou, Rana Asfour
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