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Three stories published every Friday

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

“Ehna rajiun”—a review of Hannah Assadi’s Paradiso 17

The protagonist is a complete individual, but also a product of forces that have shaped and exiled many Palestinians.

20 MARCH 2026 • By Eman Quotah

Iranian Visions of Democracy from the Ruins

Iranians emerging from the rubble of war have their own struggle ahead. But the lessons travel: resistance has to be preserved.

20 MARCH 2026 • By Nojang Khatami

In Defiance, a Syrian Journalist Fights the Power

Loubna Mrie's memoir of personal rebellion and political awakening unfurls in Syria before, during and after the revolution.

20 MARCH 2026 • By Anna Lekas Miller
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