Category: Literary
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محادثة مع فنانين من مزنة: عدد الكوميكس
English follows شاركوا مزنة في محادثة باللغة العربية مع ثلاث فنانين من مزنة: عدد الكوميكس. سيناقش طارق أبو عمر، حسام عمران، وكريستيان سليمان أعمالهم داخل هذا الإصدار الخاص وسيتحدثون عن أساليبهم الإبداعية الحوار يوم السبت ١٠ يوليو ٢٠٢١ الساعة ١١ صباحًا بتوقيت مينيابوليس احجز مكانك عدد مزنة لشتاء ٢٠٢٠ قامت بتحريره الروائية التصويرية الفلسطينية ليلى…
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Mizna x AAWW: Announcing I WANT SKY
One year ago, activist and writer Sarah Hegazy ended her life in response to unimaginable cruelty, after being imprisoned and tortured by the Egyptian regime. Mizna in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop‘s The Margins, present I WANT SKY, a collection honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ people of…
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Mizna Wins FIRECRACKER AWARD
Mizna is thrilled to announce that our literary journal has won a FIRECRACKER AWARD from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)! This award is given annually to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and…
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Call for Submissions: The Experimental Issue
Note: Submissions for the Experimental Issue are now closed Call for submissions for Mizna: The Experimental Issue, Winter 2021. Due August 20, 2021. 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, we have…
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Mizna at RAWIfest
Mizna is a proud sponsor and presenter of this year’s RAWIfest, a free virtual program celebrating Anglophone SWANA (Southwest Asian & North African) literature and performance art. RAWIfest takes place June 10–13, 2021. In addition to presenting a virtual Hafla, Mizna will co-present two readings which highlight and celebrate queer SWANA artistry. +Queer Voices Reading…
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Al Asleyeen
Hazem Fahmy This text is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond. Any discussion of Marwan Hamed and Ahmed Mourad’s 2017 film must begin with language.…
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Mizna: The Comix Issue Virtual Launch
UPDATE: A recording of the launch event of Mizna: The Comix Issue is available here. Join us in launching Mizna: The Comix Issue virtually! Guest editor Leila Abedelrazaq will host a conversation with some of the artists in the issue, discussing their work in this special collection and reflecting on their art practice. Including Merieme…
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It is Burning./ It is Dreaming./ It is Waking Up/: Poetry and Environmental Justice
Mizna is proud to present a reading exploring poetry and environmental justice featuring the powerful poets Samiya Bashir, Leila Chatti, and Amir Rabiyah on Saturday May 15, 2021. This reading’s theme was collectively chosen by members of the Poetry Coalition, of which Mizna is a member, and the is titled after the line “It is…
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Call for Submissions: I Want Sky
This notebook is a special partnership between Mizna and Asian American Writers Workshop, guest-edited by Mariam Bazeed. Full submissions guidelines here.Trigger warning: Suicide In her suicide note, composed in the mute solidarity of the asylum of forced exile—and by a hand whose skin had yet to wrinkle—Sarah Hegazy apologizes. On a simple, lined, spiral-bound notebook,…