Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for global liberation movements.
11 JULY 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. serviceman who self-immolated to protest the genocide in Gaza, has become a modern Palestinian martyr.
11 JULY 2025 • By Hadani Ditmars
Gurnah's new novel, "Theft," is a post-colonial exploration of Tanzania, immigration, and the relationship between Africa and the west.
09 JULY 2025 • By Philip Grant
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 Lina Mounzer
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
