A look at Ziad Rahbani's life and legacy, and the man who first introduced him to the jazz sound that transformed Lebanon's musical landscape.
08 AUGUST, 2025 • By DIRAN MARDIRIAN
A conversation with Mohammad Kassem, co-curator of the Kuwait Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
01 AUGUST, 2025 • By GEORGINA VAN WELIE
A writer in Gaza reports on the consequences of Israel's blocking humanitarian aid and medicines from entering the besieged territory.
01 AUGUST, 2025 • By ASEM AL JERJAWI
As planet temperatures rise, architects in the Middle East eschew Western fixes and revitalize local solutions.
01 AUGUST, 2025 • By IASON ATHANASIADIS
A writer in Tehran surveys the wreckage after 12 days of missiles, bombs and rhetoric flying between Israel and Iran.
27 JUNE, 2025 • By AMIR
Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure and methods of state control.
27 JUNE, 2025 • By JENNIFER HATTAM
Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, and concerts … TMR World Picks run the gamut …
27 JUNE, 2025 • By TMR
A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to send his observations to TMR.
20 JUNE, 2025 • By AMIR
Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer once did in Baghdad.
20 JUNE, 2025 • By HASSAN ABDULRAZZAK
Souseh counsels hope and continued resistance to an anxious mother worried about her kids in dangerous times.
20 JUNE, 2025 • By SOUSEH
A photo festival backed by a real estate developer puts the spotlight on Cairo's Downtown under transformation.
13 JUNE, 2025 • By IASON ATHANASIADIS
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.
13 JUNE, 2025 • By JIM QUILTY
