Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...
28 MARCH 2025 • By TMR
An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its significance has shifted considerably.
21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
Gréki’s poetry expresses her deep love for Algeria while also serving as a powerful tribute to resistance against colonialism.
21 MARCH 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.
14 MARCH 2025 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50 years.
14 MARCH 2025 • By Jonas Elbousty
Technology, rational division of labor, and deference to authority enabled ordinary people to contribute to acts of mass extermination in Gaza.
28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Selma Dabbagh
In his new book, Peter Beinart proposes a single state solution that would balance equality for all Israeli and Palestinian citizens within it.
28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By David N. Myers
Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...
28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By TMR
Jim Quilty interviews Paris-based Gazan artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut about his new show, "Just in Case" at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, on through March 25.
21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
The poetry of Najwan Darwish is “at once anti-nationalist yet profoundly and personally invested in the Palestinian cause."
21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Eman Quotah
What two new books from Omar El Akkad and Mohammed El-Kurd tell us about the war on the Palestinian people.
14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Gaza was meant from the start of the genocide to be bombed into rubble, to be made uninhabitable and to be depopulated of the Palestinians.
14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Chris Hedges
