Author: Lana Barkawi
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On Kansas City Art Institute’s Cancellation of Mizna’s “Writers for Palestine”
May 4, 2024 Read our follow-up statement from May 8, 2024 below. We condemn Kansas City Art Institute’s (KCAI) unilateral cancellation of Mizna’s event, “Writers for Palestine,” a literary reading originally scheduled to be held at KCAI on February 7, 2024 as an independent event during, but unaffiliated with, the 2024 Association of Writers and…
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I WANT SKY in New York: A reading for Sarah Hegazi
In celebration of the life of Sarah Hegazi, two years after her tragic death, join us for a loving Pride reading in New York. Guest editor Mariam Bazeed will be joined by authors from the special tribute publication I Want Sky to read in a garden space for this in-person event. There will also be…
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ARTIST TALK—Wael Morcos: Graphic Design in Multi-Cultural Contexts
Designing across a variety of scripts comes with a set of challenges. Consideration for history, cultural nuances, and diverse communities come into play. In this talk, Wael Morcos will share some of his current work at the design studio Morcos Key unfolding between the US and South West Asia and North Africa, spanning editorial, branding, exhibition,…
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I Want Sky: Celebrating Sarah Hegazy
A Digital and Print Collection 2022 Pride Reading in NYC Seated is limited, RSVP today! Watch I Want Sky Print Edition Launch Recorded live on Sunday, November 7, 2021 at Open Book, Minneapolis. Read I Want Sky Digital EditionOrder I Want Sky Print Edition I Want Sky collects prose, poems, and hybrid work celebrating Egyptian…
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Mizna’s Arab Film Fest: Tulsa Edition
Circle Cinema OCTOBER 21–24, 2021 Mizna’s Arab Film Fest is on tour to Tulsa! A curated selection of contemporary and restored films from will screen to Tulsa, Oklahoma audiences with our partners, Circle Cinema and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. The festival is made possible thanks to generous support from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Curated by…
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Black Lives Matter
Join Mizna, ITSRC, NAATW & AROC for a series of webinars addressing Anti-Black racism in Southwest Asian / North African and Disapora communities. More info here. English, Farsi and Arabic panels available. On May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, in the metro area that Mizna calls home, George Floyd was brutally murdered by the police. In…
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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
POETRY COALITION FELLOWSHIP– APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED UNTIL JULY 15, 2020. Mizna, a founding member of the Poetry Coalition, is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position. This position is 20 hours per week from September 15, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The stipend is $18,720 plus a $1,000 stipend toward health care. Mizna is…
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Mizna At Home: Virtual Cinema Filmmaker Bios
Filmmakers included in Mizna’s May Virtual Cinema Series Suliman Elnour (Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur / It Still Rotates / ولكن الأرض تدور) was born in 1947 and is a Sudanese filmmaker and writer. He studied folklore, and African and Asian studies at the University of Khartoum and film at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow. He…
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Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry
It’s with startling force that Handal builds an architecture for the wanderer.—Washington Independent Review of Books Join Mizna for a special reading from acclaimed Palestinian poet Nathalie Handal. To kick off a weekend of celebrations marking Mizna’s twentieth anniversary, Handal will read from her latest poetry collection, Life in a Country Album, and will sign…