Category: Literary
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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…
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2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Mizna is pleased to announce its 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees: Fahad Al-Amoudi, Cinnabar Island, Mizna 23.2: The Black SWANA Issue Omar Berrada, I followed lines I never saw: On some motifs of connection and separation in the work of Etel Adnan, Mizna 23.1: Tribute to Etel Adnan Marlin M. Jenkins, The Good Ones, Mizna 23.2:…
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For Etel
Etel Adnan passed away last year on November 14, 2021 at the age of 96, leaving behind a wealth of prose, poetry, and artworks. Mizna asked writers and artists who have been impacted by Adnan’s life and work to contribute works for a digital feature. This digital tribute accompanies the summer 2022 issue of Mizna which…
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Luminance: A Tribute Event for Etel Adnan
On the one year anniversary of her death, Mizna celebrates the life and legacy of the prolific artist, writer, and philosopher Etel Adnan in a conversation with some of her collaborators and peers, Kazim Ali, Andrea Abi-Karam, and Omar Berrada moderated by Mizna curator Heba Y. Amin. This conversation will be available to view starting…
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Looking Through the Eternal Present —Marie-Nour Hechaime interviews Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
This text is published as part of Mizna: 23.1: Tribute to Etel Adnan. Available to order here. Ismyrna begins with the recollection of the dreadful night of 1922 when Joana Hadjithomas’s grandfather had to flee — alongside his family — from Smyrna in flames. The fifty-minute film by artist duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, produced in…
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Mizna 23.1 Virtual Launch
Saturday August 20, 2022, Mizna virtually launched our summer issue, Mizna 23.1. This virtual event features readings by Ibtisam M. Abujad, emet ezell, Malvika Jolly, Nathalie Khankan, and Abu Bakr Sadiq. Mizna 23.1 includes a tribute to the life and legacy of Etel Adnan. WATCH HERE Order Mizna 23.1 ABOUT THE READERS Ibtisam M. Abujad is…
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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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Luminance: A Tribute to Etel Adnan
This summer, Mizna celebrates the life and legacy of the prolific artist, writer, and philosopher Etel Adnan in a series of film and literary programs. Etel Adnan passed away last year at the age of 96, leaving behind a wealth of prose, poetry, and artworks. Her visual and written works manifest images of joy and…