In Algeria, singer-songwriter Amel Zen and the group Iwal write and perform in their indigenous Dahri and Chaoui.
24 APRIL 2026 • By Sana Herireche
In her biweekly column, following Israel's Black Wednesday massacres, Amal Ghandour mulls the future of Lebanon.
24 APRIL 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
For this final iteration of the column before it goes on hiatus, Souseh writes a letter to herself.
24 APRIL 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Six years into Lebanon’s collapse, Beirut’s cultural centers struggle to cope with an unprecedented displacement crisis.
17 APRIL 2026 • By Jim Quilty
At a Berlin residency, a Gazan writer finds unexpected kinship among women bound by cross-border grief.
17 APRIL 2026 • By Alaa Alqaisi
Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man offer an idealistic framework to break the stalemate in Palestine.
17 APRIL 2026 • By Mya Guarnieri
Mother tongues, endlessly chimeric, endlessly beguiling, can become both dangerous baggage and precious commodity.
In the wake of genocide, a Palestinian American loses her words — until she finds her way in another tongue.
6 March 2026 • By Sarah Aziza
In which a young artist goes beyond words, beyond language, to create meaning with signs and symbols of her own creation.
6 March 2026 • By Naima Morelli
In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Shahé Mankerian
Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade...
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Shira Wolfe
In her biweekly column, following Israel's Black Wednesday massacres, Amal Ghandour mulls the future of Lebanon.
24 APRIL 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
For this final iteration of the column before it goes on hiatus, Souseh writes a letter to herself.
24 APRIL 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
FictionIn this quietly devastating short story set in Gaza, the sea offers a fleeting illusion of paradise — before the war returns.
1 MAY 2026 • By AISHA ABDEL GAWAD
FictionIn this short story translated from Greek, a ferry ride across the Bosphorus becomes a reckoning with a life left behind.
1 MAY 2026 • By NEKTARIA ANASTASIADOU
FictionIn a crowded bar on the Calabrian coast, love and shame grow side by side as a child learns what it means to belong.
1 MAY 2026 • By EMANUELA ANECHOUM
EssayA Mediterranean boat crossing, Mount Athos, and a daughter’s scrolling screen collapse into a single shifting sea of image and memory.
1 MAY 2026 • By XLOI KARNEZI
EssayA writer ponders the little remarked-upon, accelerating, and possibly unsalvageable demise of the world's oldest inhabited seas.
1 MAY 2026 • By IASON ATHANASIADIS
Fictionتبدو حكاية إبراهيم عادية؛ يقع في الحب ويهاجر إلى المحبوب، لكن خلف ذلك عالم واسع من الأسئلة والإجابات والدموع.
27 APRIL 2026 • By ماجد وهيب
