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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TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
A bombing in Gaza destroys an entire family except for the protagonist of the short story and his beloved dog.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Ghassan Ghassan
Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Naima Morelli
An 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 Mansoubi
Can 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 Bukhari
Four artists choose their animals, birds and fish as inspiration, cautionary tale, or metaphor.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Jelena Sofronijevic, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Siobhán Shilton, Charlotte Bank
In 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 Hashmi
An 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 Abdoh
When 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 Lababidi
Artist Manal Mahamid shares the evolution of her exhibition, The Palestinian Gazelle, reflecting on the paradox of colonialism.
01 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Manal Mahamid
In 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 Mounzer
Tom 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
