Like a classic noir narrative in which morality blurs and truth is slippery, the world today feels increasingly absurd and nihilistic.
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Palestinian Refaat Al-Areer was not just an academic. He was a living metaphor for Gaza’s steadfastness, writes his student Taqwa Al-Wawi.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
The “francophone” term limits books to the “Francophonie” section in French bookstores, and forces authors to focus on identity.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Nasser Rabah and other poets of Gaza are still writing — still sending their poems to us, because Palestine is literature.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Eman Quotah
A doctor writes on the grand multiparas — women who have given birth five or more times.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Sarah Shaheen, Lina Mounzer
Elias Khoury and Ilan Pappe discuss a mutual line of racism and victimization that runs through the Nakba and the Holocaust.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Ilan Pappé
U.S. asylees and refugees must consider the risks of visiting Syria against the lives they've established in the U.S.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Rana Alsoufi
"Voices of Resistance" stands as a vital work of testimonial literature that refuses to be forgotten, writes Francesca Vawdrey.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Francesca Vawdrey
Following the banishment of Bashar Al-Assad, Syrian artists are starting to return and exhibit new work at home and internationally.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Forgotten offers a profound meditation on the Palestinian landscape, on loss, neglect and the ravages of time.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Gabriel Polley
TMR's literary editor gives insight and nuance to our Summer 2025 double literary issue.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
After many years of being tormented, a man finally seeks revenge against past aggressors who have long since vanished. Or have they?
04 JULY, 2025 • By Eman Al Yousuf, Rana Asfour
We're not quite at "Fahrenheit 451" where books in pyres are burned in public, but our freedom to read faces significant threats.
04 JULY, 2025 • By Yasmina Jraissati
