We, the Wanderers—Featured Artist El Mehdi Largo
A Moroccan artist becomes Italian and then Arab, all while creating art that critiques orientalist tropes, and having fun along the way.
Home — a State of Restlessness?
Neemah Ahamed explores what home means when one’s life is upended and what once held cherished emotions disintegrates.
The Non-Citizen Gulf Resident Novel: An Emergent Genre?
Non-citizen Gulf residents are rarely depicted in media or literature, but two new novels may change all that.
Novelist Jadd Hilal on Being French and Palestinian
Jadd Hilal is French, Palestinian, and Lebanese. In this interview with TMR, he parses national identities.
“Paranoia”—a story from Afghanistan
Haunted by fear and fragile hope, two couples cross the Afghan capital and accidentally meet. Where is the common ground between them?
Love and Other Obstacles: When a Palestinian and an Israeli Get Married
A new memoir builds a case for one state where everyone has equal rights.
The Grammar of Power: On Journalism, Grief, and the Stories That Break Us
An essay on how and why grieving for Palestine is being policed in classrooms, newsrooms, and beyond.
Sultana to the Rescue
A lonely Lebanese writer welcomes a poor woman into his home, unwittingly realizing that it is she who is saving him.
The Absent Homeland
Maysaa Alajjan on a homeland that never accepted her, and another that she never knew.
On Identity—Ayşegül Savaş’ Long Distance
Rome-based filmmaker Amy Omar explores the short stories of a Turkish writer living in Paris who turns cities into characters themselves.
Why NATIONALITY?
Nationality: at the end of the day, we are richer for the diversity of our identities, and poorer for our divisions.
Myth and Migration in the Work of Dalia Al-Dujaili
Al-Dujaili shows how global crises connect us and reveal our shared humanity.