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 powerful tale of a man freed from prison asks: What if surviving torture meant never quite returning to earth?
3 JULY 2026 • By Bachtyar Ali, Alana Levinson-LaBrosse, Halo
In Ottoman-era Istanbul, a Kurdish family in exile witnesses the resurrection of a child that will shape their lives for generations.
3 JULY 2026 • By Mehmed Uzun, Jeannette Okur, Tahirhan Aydin
A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting political and social landscape.
3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi
The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a speech in Munich.
3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu
Three new pieces of SWANA literature, criticism and art every Friday-direct.
