Author: Mizna Intern
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Mizna featured in Citypages ‘Best of the Twin Cities’ Edition
Exciting news: Mizna was named Best Non-profit of the Twin Cities by Citypages! For over 20 years, Mizna has provided a critical space for SWANA + Arab American artistic expression and we will continue to do so. Thanks for recognizing our work!Check out the rest of the winners in the article here!
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Part II: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Four Writers on Poetry and Protest
The lines from Audre Lorde’s poem “New Year’s Day” serve as an inspiration for a Poetry Coalition collaboration. Image on left from Alaa Satir’s visual art series “We are the revolution”. On March 26, 2020, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop + Mizna co-hosted a live-streamed reading with Andrea Abi-Karam, Romaissaa Benzizoune, and Sham-e-Ali Nayeem as…
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The year’s best Twin Cities art exhibitions were diverse and international
History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary was included in the Star Tribune’s “best of 2019 arts and entertainment” roundup.
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Getting Out: Mn Artists Guest Editor Moheb Soliman
Moheb shares the following introduction to his series, titled “Getting Out”: “Art,Bye bye. Hello real life. Goodbye translation; hello interpretation. Hello experience and thought unrendered; hello satisfaction or distress on the first order. Hello people, the people, by millions. Hello wilderness- fecundity, without people and art. Hello lucid utility or recreation versus incessant re-creation; hello…
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Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness Featured in Star Tribune
Art exhibition at SooVAC rejects ‘Middle East’ in favor of a more inclusive community. SWANA is meant as a corrective to “Middle East,” a Western, colonialist term. Defining the region along geographic rather than political lines, its borders stretch from Morocco in the west to Afghanistan in the east, embracing a broader swath of countries,…
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History Is Not Here Featured in ArtAsiaPacific
“In addition to bringing works by an international roster of artists to the Twin Cities, ‘History Is Not Here’ affirmed the important role that Mizna, the only publication of its kind in the United States, has played in contemporary discourse related to art and literature of the Arab and Arab-American diaspora.” History Is Not Here:…