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The Art of Giving: Relief Efforts in Beirut

Six years into Lebanon’s collapse, Beirut’s cultural centers struggle to cope with an unprecedented displacement crisis.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Jim Quilty

Four Women in Berlin

At a Berlin residency, a Gazan writer finds unexpected kinship among women bound by cross-border grief.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Alaa Alqaisi

Will Israel Move From Apartheid to Democracy?

Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man offer an idealistic framework to break the stalemate in Palestine.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Mya Guarnieri

Creating Art in Times of War

TMR asked writers and artists what motivation can remain, in times of war, to write or create art? More troubling still, is there any point?

10 APRIL 2026 • By TMR

A Ledger of Destruction, A Sisterhood of Grief and Grievance

Amal Ghandour takes the measure of Israel's assaults on Lebanon in the present ceasefire.

10 APRIL 2026 • By Amal Ghandour

Fragments of Beirut in Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me

Rather than offer a linear retelling of Lebanon’s history, the film draws our attention to the internal rhymes and rhythms of collective memory.

10 APRIL 2026 • By Darío Karim Pomar Azar

Apples and Oranges, or Why the US Supports Israel

Why does the U.S. continue funding Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of international condemnation?

03 APRIL 2026 • By Jason Hickel

The Souls of War Folk

The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a speech in Munich.

03 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu

“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting political and social landscape.

03 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi

A Fight to The Death (the Rest of Us In-Between)

No one in Lebanon is ever out of the fray, not even those who are very far away from burning neighborhoods and landscapes.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour

Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War

This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive dissonance that results.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Lina Mounzer

Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky on Migrants, Racism, and Hope

An unorthodox family forged by crisis, three African women living together in Tunis, shelters a young shipwreck survivor.

27 MARCH 2026 • By Karim Goury
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