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
Souseh answers a letter from a reader wondering how to handle her younger sister, who is enamored of conspiracy theories.
23 MAY 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
16 MAY 2025 • By Lynzy Billing
Embattled Algerian-French author Kamel Daoud won France’s most prestigious literary prize for a story he is accused of stealing.
16 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.
16 MAY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.
15 MAY 2025 • By TMR
