Category: Literary
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Not Just Passing: In Honor of Heba Abu Nada
by Heba Abu Nada, trans. by Huda Fakhreddine
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Call for Submissions: Mizna 25.1
Please read the full call for submissions carefully, as our guidelines have changed. All submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will be discarded unread. Submissions are due December 15, 2023. As Mizna’s twenty-fifth anniversary approaches, we are opening submissions for our Summer 2024 Issue, Mizna 25.1. Although this issue will be unthemed, the editorial…
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RAWIfest 2023
The Radius of Arab American Writers and Mizna are excited to host Mizna+RAWIFest, RAWI’s bi-annual conference for 2023, in RAWI’s 30th year! The conference will take place October 26 through 28 in Minneapolis and online. This event is FULLY-HYBRID, those choosing to attend online will be able to fully participate. The conference will kick-off with…
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The Ineffable Resonance– Safia Elhillo interviews Charif Shanahan
This text is published as part of Mizna: 23.2: Black SWANA Takeover. Available to order here. Poets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan first met during Cave Canem’s 2014 writing retreat, and, at the end of their time together, Safia’s graduation speech was abundant with praise for Charif’s work and his depiction of the mother figure– a woman…
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Call for Submissions: The Cinema Issue
Call for submissions, Mizna: The Cinema Issue, Winter 2023. The deadline has been extended to June 26, 2023. Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, Mizna has been creating a decolonized cultural…
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Mizna at AWP 2023
The 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair takes place March 8–11, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. Join Mizna for a long weekend of Arab lit! At this year’s conference, Mizna will be hosting an offsite launch of our latest issue, an offsite workshop, and a panel. Learn more about how to attend the AWP 2023 here. Find…
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Mizna 23.2: Black SWANA Takeover
Mizna: Black SWANA Takeover, guest-edited by acclaimed poet Safia Elhillo and produced by an all-Black takeover team, was released February 2023 in celebration of Black History Month. The highly anticipated issue explores the infinitely varied and kaleidoscopic nature of the Black SWANA experience through a collection of poetry, prose, critical essays, research, and art, as…