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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The Grammar of Power: On Journalism, Grief, and the Stories That Break Us

An essay on how and why grieving for Palestine is being policed in classrooms, newsrooms, and beyond.

07 NOVEMBER, 2025 • By Adam Makary

Sultana to the Rescue

A lonely Lebanese writer welcomes a poor woman into his home, unwittingly realizing that it is she who is saving him.

07 NOVEMBER, 2025 • By MK Harb

The Absent Homeland

Maysaa Alajjan on a homeland that never accepted her, and another that she never knew.

07 NOVEMBER, 2025 • By Maysaa Alajjan

On Identity—Ayşegül Savaş’ Long Distance

Filmmaker Amy Omar explores the short stories of a Turkish writer living in Paris.

07 NOVEMBER, 2025 • By Amy Omar

Why NATIONALITY?

Nationality: at the end of the day, we are richer for the diversity of our identities, and poorer for our divisions.

07 NOVEMBER, 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably, Malu Halasa

Myth and Migration in the Work of Dalia Al-Dujaili

Al-Dujaili shows how global crises connect us and reveal our shared humanity.

06 NOVEMBER, 2025 • By Noshin Bokth

Why FRIENDSHIP?

TMR's October issue examines the multifaceted nature of friendship — intimate or communal, joyful or bittersweet.

03 OCTOBER, 2025 • By Rana Asfour

A Day In Damascus

A console included with an arthouse film in Syria allows viewers to watch characters from various films form unexpected friendships.

03 OCTOBER, 2025 • By Sanad Tabbaa

Revolutionary Reissues: Enemy Of The Sun and Leila and the Wolves

A re-released poetry collection and forgotten film underscore Palestinian resistance. What do they teach us about unity and struggle?

03 OCTOBER, 2025 • By Katie Logan

Lamia Fakhoury: Holding Space and Working Together

TMR interviews this Jordanian artist on her circuitous journey as a sculptor.

03 OCTOBER, 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably

Play the Game by Fatima Daas—an excerpt

Daas' latest novel explores what it means to grow up queer and Muslim in France.

03 OCTOBER, 2025 • By Fatima Daas

Blue, The Arabian Red Fox

An artist watching starvation in Gaza from afar befriends a fox in Abu Dhabi. Nature, the destroyer, also consoles.

03 OCTOBER, 2025 • By Noura Ali-Ramahi
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