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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Why Paris?

Why Paris?

Jordan Elgrably explores a PARIS issue from the perspective of Arab and Middle Eastern residents.

01 APRIL, 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences, memory and the invisible.

01 APRIL, 2024 • By TMR, Jordan Elgrably
Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Paris provided the grit and opportunity for Nass el Ghiwane to hone a new sound that would rock the Magreb and Europe, writes Benjamin Jones.

01 APRIL, 2024 • By Benjamin Jones
When Fatma Haddad Became “Baya”—a Paris Art Story

When Fatma Haddad Became “Baya”—a Paris Art Story

Baya was among first Algerian artists recognized in Paris. Though labeled naïve, her art remains influential and enduring.

01 APRIL, 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

With genocidal violence raging in Gaza and muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices throughout France, Ariella Azoulay's word is now inescapable.

01 APRIL, 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes, Jordan Elgrably
Feurat Alani: Paris, Fallujah and Recovered Memory

Feurat Alani: Paris, Fallujah and Recovered Memory

Feurat Alani, a French novelist of Iraqi descent, succeeds in capturing the connections between two disparate cultural spheres.

01 APRIL, 2024 • By Nada Ghosn, Rana Asfour
Why “Burn It all Down”?

Why “Burn It all Down”?

Senior editor Lina Mounzer articulates the inexpressible, inconsolable feelings at a time when genocide is occurring before the eyes of the world.

03 MARCH, 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner

Al-Thakla—Arabic as the Original Mourner

Abdelrahman ElGendy asks, how do you hold your grief in a language that's been its main perpetrator?

03 MARCH, 2024 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy
“The Minisecures”—excerpt from The History of the Gods of Egypt

“The Minisecures”—excerpt from The History of the Gods of Egypt

Bonfire of the vanities: A second-rate artist imagines the prophets and the grand, holy tales of monotheism.

03 MARCH, 2024 • By Mohammad Rabie, Robin Moger
The Fires of Shame; the Burn of Desire

The Fires of Shame; the Burn of Desire

Joumana Haddad lays bare the physical and cerebral journey that has led her to experience the best sex she's ever had.

03 MARCH, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking

Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, offers four books to challenge the world as we know it.

03 MARCH, 2024 • By Rana Asfour
Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

After the ICJ ruling on Israel, it is in its best interests to redefine its cause to one that is just for both Israelis and Palestinians, writes Amal Ghandour.

03 MARCH, 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
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