Category: Literary
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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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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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One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives
In case you missed it, you can watch the Poetry Coalition’s full ONE POEM Festival in Support of Black Lives on Youtube. Closed captioning is included. About the Reading On August 18, the founding members of the Poetry Coalition, a network of over 25 poetry organizations from across the United States, were honored to present…
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Calling all Arab & SWANA illustrators and comic artists!
ترجمة عربية Mizna, the only Arab lit and art journal in the United States, is seeking submissions for a special Comix Issue. This issue will be guest edited by Palestinian graphic novelist Leila Abdelrazaq. We are seeking comics submissions by Arab and SWANA artists living anywhere in the world responding to the prompt of A New World…
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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.
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Introducing #MiznaAtHome
As routines shift and we find ourselves spending more time at home than we ever anticipated, art is an essential respite. During this uncertain and frightening time, our small Mizna team is more grateful than ever for the artists, readers, audiences, and community we are fortunate to be a part of. The arts community is…
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Part II: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Four Writers on Poetry and Protest
The lines from Audre Lorde’s poem “New Year’s Day” serve as an inspiration for a Poetry Coalition collaboration. Image on left from Alaa Satir’s visual art series “We are the revolution”. On March 26, 2020, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop + Mizna co-hosted a live-streamed reading with Andrea Abi-Karam, Romaissaa Benzizoune, and Sham-e-Ali Nayeem as…
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Part I: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Six Writers on Poetry and Protest
The lines from Audre Lorde’s poem “New Year’s Day” serve as an inspiration for a Poetry Coalition collaboration. By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop + Mizna. Image on left from Alaa Satir’s visual art series “We are the revolution”. Below is a link to the full blogpost and a snippet from each readers’ response. George Abraham…
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing: a reading of Mizna authors in New York City
In an effort to confront this difficult time with the power of creative communities, our originally scheduled reading for Thursday, March 26, co-sponsored with AAWW and featuring Andrea Abi Karam, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, and Romaissaa Benzizoune will now be live-streamed as a virtual event on AAWW’s Facebook page. Details and instructions on how to join us remotely…