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How do you practice self-acceptance the next time your mother admonishes you over a cookie or your body in general?

22 AUGUST 2025 • By Lina Mounzer

Shady Lewis' new novel skewers British bureaucracy while exploring the immigrant experience with black humor and surreal situations.

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Valeria Berghinz

Arabic, France’s second-most spoken language, was featured at this year’s Avignon Festival, but is Arabic still the outsider's tongue?

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Georgina Van Welie

Ali Cherri’s Marseille show, on view until January 4, 2026, deconstructs the museum from the inside out.

15 AUGUST 2025 • By Naima Morelli

The long history of Egyptian women's activism created the intellectual and political background for revolution.

08 AUGUST 2025 • By Jasmin Attia

A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.

08 AUGUST 2025 • By Ahmed Naji

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

In Gaza, where airstrikes define life, two lovers still find a way to connect in a landscape scarred by shrapnel and scattered steel.

25 JULY 2025 • By Husam Maarouf

Literary conversations, films, exhibitions, and concerts … TMR World Picks run the gamut…

25 JULY 2025 • By TMR