Category: Mizna News
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Arab Film Fest Collab
The Arab American National Museum (AANM), Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), ArteEast and Mizna collectively present the Arab Film Fest Collab December 3–13, 2020. With programs featuring films, panel discussions, and performances from Southwest Asia and North Africa, the AFFC highlights Arab, Afro-Arab and Black SWANA voices, capturing the complexity of the Arabic-speaking world…
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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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Press Release 10/27/2020: Arab Film Fest Collab Starts December 3, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATED RELEASE:FOUR MAJOR NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL ORGS JOIN FORCES TO PRESENT A VIRTUAL ARAB FILM FESTIVAL The Arab Film Fest Collab will highlight Afro-Arab + Black SWANA voices, screen Najwa Najjar’s Between Heaven and Earth and more Press contact:Ahmed AbdulMageedahmed@mizna.org Stay up to date with more news: arabfilmfestcollab.org Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN (Oct. 27, 2020)…
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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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Accountability Statement
Mizna read the below accountability statement to commence the webinar series addressing anti-Black racism in SWANA + Diaspora communities. See our statement on the murder of George Floyd here, and watch the recorded webinars here. Hello, I’m Lana Barkawi, the Executive and Artistic Director at Mizna, a nonprofit arts organization with a mission to provide…
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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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Mizna featured in Citypages ‘Best of the Twin Cities’ Edition
Exciting news: Mizna was named Best Non-profit of the Twin Cities by Citypages! For over 20 years, Mizna has provided a critical space for SWANA + Arab American artistic expression and we will continue to do so. Thanks for recognizing our work!Check out the rest of the winners in the article here!
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Webinar Series: Anti-Black Racism in SWANA + Diaspora
Statement in Farsi / فارسی • Statement in Arabic / عربى Following a statement made after the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, between July 10 and July 24, 2020, Mizna with the US-based organizations including the Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at the University of Minnesota, and Arab…
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Call for Submissions: 2020 Twin Cities Arab Film Fest
Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2020 Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) is seeking films for our upcoming festival scheduled for September 24-27, 2020, as well as our new ongoing monthly film series. We accept narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films of feature and short lengths. We seek films made by Arab or Arab American…