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Mizna is proud to announce our 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominees. From Mizna Summer 2016: • Suheir Hammad for “prince and queens”• Amir Hussain for “Unmanned”• Tammy Lakkis for “Border Control” From Mizna Winter 2016, the Climate & Environment Issue, Winter 2016. Coming Soon! • Sharif Elmusa for “Ambassador Ra in London”• Naomi Shihab Nye for “Hummingbird”• Hamad Al-Rayes for “The Keeper of the Sea”

The 11th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival was a weekend of beautiful, challenging, and powerful film. Thank you to our audiences, filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors, and partners. Mizna’s Arab Film Festival festival has long celebrated films and filmmakers whose work sets them apart. For the second year, in 2016, we convened a brilliant jury of filmmakers, film…

MIZNA STREAM Tune into Mizna Stream for highlights of great readings, discussions, and events from Mizna. August 24, 2016 PERFORMANCE PANELIn this episode of Mizna Stream, you’ll hear featured readings by Arab-American writers Jennifer Zeynab Maccani, Adam Hamze, and Lauren Camp.

Heba Y. Amin is Mizna’s new Curator of Visual Art. This interview was conducted by Lana Barkawi and published in the summer 2016 issue of Mizna (Volume 17.1), which also features a survey of her recent work. Subscribe now to get a copy. LB: We are living in an interesting cultural moment when it seems the mainstream Western…

Mizna sat in on a rehearsal of “In Algeria They Know My Name,” an upcoming, one-woman play written by and starring Taous Khazem. Afterwords, we picked Taous’s brain to learn more about the inspiration of the play and where it’s headed next. Be sure to catch it this weekend at Dreamland Arts, April 15-17. Tickets…

The 10th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival was a weekend of beautiful, challenging, and powerful film. Thank you to our audiences, filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors, and partners. Mizna’s Arab Film Festival festival has long celebrated films and filmmakers whose work sets them apart. For the first time in 2015, we convened a brilliant jury of filmmakers, film scholars,…

We’re happy to share the news that the incomparable Heba Amin, long-time Mizna friend who is one of the artists behind the subversive action on the television series “Homeland” set, has joined Mizna’s team as our Curator of Visual Art. Mizna has a long relationship with Heba who was a grantee in Mizna’s 2007 Latitudes granting program…

Joyce Foundation Fellow through Mizna, Moheb Soliman documents his journey across the Great Lakes Borderland of Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. Moheb began his exploration in June and ended it in early October of 2015. H.O.M.E.S is a project exploring the place of nature in modernity, identity and belonging. Check out Moheb’s gorgeous blog: A…

Read Judy Woodward’s Park Bugle interview with Mizna’s executive director Lana Barkawi.

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