The world appears to be barreling toward an apocalypse that proves, for better or worse, that we are all in this together.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
A historian talks about the reckoning happening now—three years into a genocide—and where we might be headed.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By TMR
This debut novel centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Matt Broomfield
A grief-stricken man returns to his hometown and reckons with his relationship to faith, community, and love.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Barâa Arar
As the U.S. bombs Iran, a man's obsessions range from the expected to the absurd in the long wait for a delivery.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Shahab Eddin Pakbeen
A Palestinian novelist and poet reflects on the problems, pleasures, and peculiarities of writing fiction today.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
TMR’s Literary Editor reflects on what created the Anthropocene—capitalism, colonialism, ecocide—and the possibility of undoing it.
By Abdelrahman ElGendy
The human will toward life meets the inhuman algorithms hunting people down like prey in Israel's ravaging of Lebanon.
By Cynthia Kreichati
A self-described “dystopian artist” creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.
By Nour Annan
A grief-stricken man returns to his hometown and reckons with his relationship to faith, community, and love.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Barâa Arar
As the U.S. bombs Iran, a man's obsessions range from the expected to the absurd in the long wait for a delivery.
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Shahab Eddin Pakbeen
A young Kurdish writer grapples with what it means to exist outside the politics of appeal and visibility.
7 AUGUST 2026 • By Aline Jabbari
A Palestinian teacher remembers the sister who taught her the passive voice, not knowing that grammar would be used to erase her.
10 JULY 2026 • By Hanan Habashi
Three new pieces of SWANA literature, criticism and art every Friday-direct.
