Author: Lamia Abukhadra
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Mizna 22.1 Foreword: On SWANA Literature + Art
Ruba ElMelik, Aram Kavoossi and Mizna Community Purchase your copy of Mizna 22.1 here. As Mizna asserts its identity beyond the frame of Arabness, we find ourselves gathering more as a collective of intersecting lives and experiences than as representatives of any fixed identity. While Mizna’s work has recently been categorized under the term Southwest…
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Mizna 22.1 Virtual Launch
WATCH THE LAUNCH HERE Mizna launches its summer 2021 issue, Mizna 22.1, featuring readings by Hassan Saby, Maya Salameh, Nardine Taleb and Rania Mamoun. This virtual reading takes place Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 5pm CT. ORDER MIZNA 22.1 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Hassan Saby is the manifestation of our community’s collective homophobia. Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of…
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Villainy: A Mizna Community Reading + Conversation
Harnessing street protest as a poetic formation, Andrea Abi-Karam’s latest book of poetry, Villainy, exhibits the desires that bring queers into public space. Mizna celebrates the release of Villainy with a virtual reading and conversation on Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 1pm CT. Featuring readings by Andrea Abi-Karam, Elmaz Abinader, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Tarik Dobbs, and Nour Kamel, followed by a…
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Mizna Film Series Fall 2021: Best of the Fest
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs, marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. While our annual Film Fest focuses primarily on the works of contemporary artists, the Mizna Film Series provides a space to expand our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring…
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Call for Positions: Mizna Black SWANA Takeover
The winter 2022 issue of Mizna will be a Black takeover issue. Centered on the Black and Afro-SWANA communities in the Southwest Asia + North Africa region and diaspora, the issue will be both collaborative and reflexive in its editorial process and as a finished product in order to amplify Black voices, work, and modes…
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Filmmaker Discussion: Mai Masri In Conversation with Miriam Cooke
Mizna is presents a discussion between renowned filmmaker Mai Masri and scholar Miriam Cooke. Masri and Cooke will discuss Suspended Dreams, directed in 1992 by Masri and her late husband Jean Chamoun, as well as Masri’s filmography, which focuses on the real life struggles of the women and children living in the Occupied Palestinian and Lebanon.…
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Remembering the Beirut Port Explosion
On August, 4, 2020 a portion of the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, kept in the centrally located port of Beirut, exploded with disastrous results. Within minutes, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history killed hundreds of people, injured thousands, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Though plenty of testimony, statistics, and videos have…
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Letters from Beirut: Discussion with Rayyane Tabet and Dalia Said Mostafa
In conjunction with our Beirut-focused summer film series, Mizna presents a discussion on Lebanese aesthetics and the legacy of Jocelyne Saab with artist Rayyane Tabet and scholar Dr. Dalia Said Mostafa. This discussion will be moderated by artist and writer Lamia Abukhadra. This virtual discussion took place Friday, July 30, 2021 at 12pm CT. ABOUT…
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‘You Have to Treat an Image Like it Never Existed’: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy
Still from “Beirut, Never Again” (dir. Jocelyne Saab, 1976)
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محادثة مع فنانين من مزنة: عدد الكوميكس
English follows شاركوا مزنة في محادثة باللغة العربية مع ثلاث فنانين من مزنة: عدد الكوميكس. سيناقش طارق أبو عمر، حسام عمران، وكريستيان سليمان أعمالهم داخل هذا الإصدار الخاص وسيتحدثون عن أساليبهم الإبداعية الحوار يوم السبت ١٠ يوليو ٢٠٢١ الساعة ١١ صباحًا بتوقيت مينيابوليس احجز مكانك عدد مزنة لشتاء ٢٠٢٠ قامت بتحريره الروائية التصويرية الفلسطينية ليلى…