A conversation between writers unfolds into a meditation on exile, memory, and how history inhabits our most private lives.
10 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad, Tareq Baconi
A columnist turns her keen eye to the almost absurd evolution of the framework hammered out between Lebanon and US-backed Israel.
10 JULY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
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
A new Middle East is visible through the debris, but not the one dearly wanted by the United States and Israel.
26 JUNE 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
The 61st Venice Biennale is one of many cultural institutions beginning to crack under the weight of their own hypocrisy over the Gaza genocide.
26 JUNE 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
An exploration of how an Ottoman slave became the mother of a library on a Greek island — and what her descendants did with it.
26 JUNE 2026 • By Jacob Wirtschafter
TMR guest editor Aryan Omar Hassan shares the inspiration for the title of our newest issue, and his experiences in the Kurdish diaspora.
By Aryan Omar Hassan
After a grieving mother is gunned down, seven children become the custodians of a village’s shattered memory.
By Hoshang Waziri, Hassan Abdulrazzak
Much of Doğan's groundbreaking art was created in prison out of the materials at hand: hair, coffee, blood.
By Rojda Idil Arslan
This haunting tale explores the Mediterranean as an artistic inspiration, a deceptively hopeful bridge, and a vast cemetery.
19 JUNE 2026 • By Zeinab Ghassan Khaddour
This gothic short story is set on the island of Unguja in Tanzania, where an idyllic house hides something darker.
8 MAY 2026 • By Rebecca Lloyd
The Library of Arabic Literature was forced to shutter, ending a vital injection of Arabic into the bloodstream of translated literature.
29 MAY 2026 • By Chip Rossetti
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.
