In the controversial documentary film NAZA, filmmakers grant the soldiers an anonymity that they have rejected on the battlefield.
30 OCTOBER 2026 • By Nicki Kattoura
This unflinching film refuses to look away from the horrors of Gaza, mirroring the urgency of the ongoing catastrophe it seeks to document.
30 OCTOBER 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
Amid a tense cultural and political climate, a palpable wariness hovered over Istanbul’s art programme this autumn.
30 OCTOBER 2026 • By Naima Morelli
Tunis’ ancient citadel is threatened by climate change and incompetence but could also offer solutions to hotter, wetter conditions.
23 OCTOBER 2026 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Israel's strategy in Lebanon’s south is less a new military design than an "old and improved" version of its national security concept.
23 OCTOBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Belal Fadl offers an unromantic portrait of Cairo’s urban poor in The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer.
23 OCTOBER 2026 • By Salma Harland
A woman returns to post-Assad Syria to discover whether the home she has carried with her still exists.
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Anas Tareef
In this first-place winner of the Azhar Short Story Prize, a caretaker lives in the shadow of an uncertain return.
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Natalia Boumatar
In Ibtisam Azem's new novel, absurdity becomes the only way to explore the current Palestinian condition.
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Ilham Essalih
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 woman returns to post-Assad Syria to discover whether the home she has carried with her still exists.
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Anas Tareef
In this first-place winner of the Azhar Short Story Prize, a caretaker lives in the shadow of an uncertain return.
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Natalia Boumatar
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.
