Life Under the Shadow of Missiles: the View From Iran
A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to send his observations to TMR.
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Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq
Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer once did in Baghdad.
Afraid for Our Children’s Future, How Do We Talk About War?
Souseh counsels hope and continued resistance to an anxious mother worried about her kids in dangerous times.
Cairo: A Downtown in Search of Lost Global City Status
A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.
From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown
Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on growing up in Ain el-Hilweh.
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.
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.
June World Picks from the Editors
Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.