Category: Literary
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What is experimental work, anyways? Foreword to Mizna 22.2: The Experimental Issue
This text is published as part of Mizna: The Experimental Issue, guest-edited by Tarik Dobbs. Available to order here. By Tarik Dobbs When I asked one of my non-writer friends what they thought “experimental writing” was, they shrugged and said, “I don’t know, um, does it go crazy all over the page?” And it’s hard to…
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Mizna: The Experimental Issue
The winter 2021 issue of Mizna, guest-edited by Tarik Dobbs, challenges conventional forms, language, and ideas within literary processes and traditions. Contributions from George Abraham, Lamia Abukhadra, Mays Albaik, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman, Darius Atefat-Peckman, Hajjar Baban, Doris Bittar, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Mohammed El-Kurd, Tracy Fuad, David Groulx, Farah Kader, Magdeline Maher, Khashayar Mohammadi, hana roz, Yasmine Rukia, Trish Salah, Glenn…
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Call for Submissions: The Black SWANA Issue
This issue comes after two years of global uprising against racism, fascism, and settler colonialism. Following the murder of George Floyd, we witnessed a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Black life and in defense of Black lives within our Twin Cities community. We also began to recognize and reckon with the role Arabs play in…
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The Experimental Issue Virtual Launch
On Sunday, January 30, Mizna launches The Experimental Issue with TWENTY ONE AUTHORS. WATCH HERE Featured readers include Mays Albaik, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman, Darius Atefat-Peckman, Hajjar Baban, Doris Bittar, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Mohammed El-Kurd, Tracy Fuad, Farah Kader, Magdeline Maher, Khashayar Mohammadi, Yasmine Rukia, hana roz, Trish Salah, Glenn Shaheen, Nadia Shihab, Fargo Tbakhi, Mohamed Tonsy,…
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Mizna 22.1 Foreword: On SWANA Literature + Art
Ruba ElMelik, Aram Kavoossi and Mizna Community Purchase your copy of Mizna 22.1 here. As Mizna asserts its identity beyond the frame of Arabness, we find ourselves gathering more as a collective of intersecting lives and experiences than as representatives of any fixed identity. While Mizna’s work has recently been categorized under the term Southwest…
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Villainy: A Mizna Community Reading + Conversation
Harnessing street protest as a poetic formation, Andrea Abi-Karam’s latest book of poetry, Villainy, exhibits the desires that bring queers into public space. Mizna celebrates the release of Villainy with a virtual reading and conversation on Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 1pm CT. Featuring readings by Andrea Abi-Karam, Elmaz Abinader, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Tarik Dobbs, and Nour Kamel, followed by a…
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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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Call for Positions: Mizna Black SWANA Takeover
The winter 2022 issue of Mizna will be a Black takeover issue. Centered on the Black and Afro-SWANA communities in the Southwest Asia + North Africa region and diaspora, the issue will be both collaborative and reflexive in its editorial process and as a finished product in order to amplify Black voices, work, and modes…