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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Our literary editor, Malu Halasa, introduces TMR 38 • LSD, our Love, Sex and Desire issue, published ahead of the 14th of February.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
In LSD's centerpiece, Joumana Haddad argues that with a dire need for political and economic reforms in most Arab countries, a sexual revolution should come first and foremost.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
For Palestinian artist Rana Samara, intimacy is not just about love and sex, but is a mixture of connection, comfort and feeling at home.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Naima Morelli
When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a poet, writer and translator are thrown into stark relief.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh
An exclusive excerpt from Dina Wahba's book "Counter Revolutionary Egypt" describes how the lachrymose president manipulates the public.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Dina Wahba
Lina Mounzer reviews the new book by Anna Lekas Miller that gathers stories of love- and border-challenged couples.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Sean Casey on a rather unusual and remarkable debut from Arthur Kayzakian that melds poetry, prose and correspondence.
04 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Sean Casey
There are some long, languid and even dangerous summers that Beirutis can never forget, and this is one of them.
03 DECEMBER, 2023 • By MK Harb
In this short story by Egyptian writer Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, translated from Arabic, a man contends with his mortality on his death bed.
03 DECEMBER, 2023 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Rana Asfour
In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a girl's school.
03 DECEMBER, 2023 • By Maryam Mahjoba, Zubair Popalzai
An exclusive excerpt from Mohammed Abdelnabi's latest novel "Almost Every Day," translated from the Arabic by Nada Faris.
03 DECEMBER, 2023 • By Mohammed Abdelnabi, Nada Faris
Exclusive excerpt from Huda Fahreddine's "A Brief Time Under a Different Sun," translated from the Arabic by Rana Asfour.
03 DECEMBER, 2023 • By Huda J. Fakhreddine, Rana Asfour
