Author: Lamia Abukhadra
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Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices Virtual Launch
Join Mizna for a virtual launch of the summer 2020 issue Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices. Guest-edited by Zeyn Joukhadar, this issue speaks to bodily autonomy, embodiment, and self-determination within a queer, transgender, SWANA, and Muslim lens. Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices bears witness to our rich history, and imagines futures for ourselves. Within these pages, we not…
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Press Release 10/27/2020: Arab Film Fest Collab Starts December 3, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATED RELEASE:FOUR MAJOR NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL ORGS JOIN FORCES TO PRESENT A VIRTUAL ARAB FILM FESTIVAL The Arab Film Fest Collab will highlight Afro-Arab + Black SWANA voices, screen Najwa Najjar’s Between Heaven and Earth and more Press contact:Ahmed AbdulMageedahmed@mizna.org Stay up to date with more news: arabfilmfestcollab.org Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN (Oct. 27, 2020)…
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A Mizna Reading at Dodge Poetry Festival
Mizna brings together a powerful slate of today’s most compelling Muslim and Southwest Asian and North African poets for the 2020 Dodge Poetry Festival: Tarik Dobbs, Ifrah Mansour, Sagirah Shahid, and Moheb Soliman. Mizna is a critical space for Arab and SWANA literature, film, and art. We publish Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab…
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Worlds of Our Own Making
Zeyn Joukhadar Foreword for Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices I The camera lens is a dark blue eye. Four months have passed since my top surgery, and a friend has asked to photograph me for a Muslim photo series. We’re both in Los Angeles for a few weeks. This is in the before, so it…
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Webinar Series: Anti-Black Racism in SWANA + Diaspora
Statement in Farsi / فارسی • Statement in Arabic / عربى Following a statement made after the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, between July 10 and July 24, 2020, Mizna with the US-based organizations including the Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at the University of Minnesota, and Arab…
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Call for Submissions: 2020 Twin Cities Arab Film Fest
Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2020 Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) is seeking films for our upcoming festival scheduled for September 24-27, 2020, as well as our new ongoing monthly film series. We accept narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films of feature and short lengths. We seek films made by Arab or Arab American…
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#MiznaAtHome: Curated List for Keeping Up with SWANA Culture During Lockdown
Mizna is pleased to share a curated list of resources from organizations around the world for keeping up with SWANA culture during lockdown.