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
A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst of a grinding war.
30 MAY 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Nejmeh Khalil Habib's latest teaches us that while there are and will always be survivors of horrors, the trauma is never forgotten.
30 MAY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Film & photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books...TMR World Picks run the gamut...
30 MAY 2025 • By TMR
A review of how some of history’s greatest civilizations' collapse presents ominous parallels with our present predicament.
23 MAY 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
The curator of the "Art of the Palestinian Poster" exhibition interviews two documentarians on their film "A Bunch of Questions With No Answers."
23 MAY 2025 • By Malu Halasa
