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TMR Weekly

30 May, 2025 • Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Doaa: From a Dreamworld to the Ashes of Displacement

A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst of a grinding war.

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30 May, 2025 • Rebecca Ruth Gould

An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s A Spring that Did Not Blossom 

Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the trauma is never forgotten.

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30 May, 2025 • TMR

June World Picks from the Editors

Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...

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23 May, 2025 • Iason Athanasiadis

The End of Civilization as We Know It—a Catastrophology

A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.

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23 May, 2025 • Malu Halasa

23 Hours Inside State Dept. Press Briefings on the Gaza Genocide

The curator of the "Art of the Palestinian Poster" exhibition interviews two documentarians on their film "A Bunch of Questions With No Answers."

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23 May, 2025 • Souseh

Dear Souseh: I Can’t Follow a Loved One Down the Rabbit Hole

Souseh answers a letter from a reader wondering how to handle her younger sister, who is enamored of conspiracy theories.

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16 May, 2025 • Lynzy Billing

Arrested and Rearrested: Palestinian Women in the West Bank

Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.

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16 May, 2025 • Lara Vergnaud

Algerian-French Author Kamel Daoud on the Defensive

Embattled Algerian-French author Kamel Daoud won France’s most prestigious literary prize for a story he is accused of stealing.

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16 May, 2025 • Jim Quilty

Contretemps, a Bold Film on Lebanon’s Crises

Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.

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15 May, 2025 • TMR

Editors’ 2025 Palestinian Lit List

May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.

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9 May, 2025 • Lara Vergnaud

A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025

This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world in crisis.

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9 May, 2025 • Jordan Elgrably

Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza

Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha who grew up in Gaza under the bombs has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

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9 May, 2025 • Elena Pare

Djinns Unveils Silence in the Home

Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family saga.

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2 May, 2025 • Anna Badkhen

The Pen and the Sword—Censorship Threatens Us All

Anna Badkhen argues that the moral bankruptcy of American intellectuals…will only kick us down the hole deeper, faster.

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25 April, 2025 • Laila Abdalla

Germany’s Most Rightwing Parliament Since WWII—Liberals Panic, Immigrants Roll Their Eyes

Laila Abdalla, a young Egyptian journalist transplanted to Germany, sizes up the rightward drift of the country.

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