Category: Mizna News
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Call for Submissions: Queer + Trans Voices
Guest edited by Zeyn Joukhadar!**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 4/14!**CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOW CLOSED. Queer and transgender writers who are Arab, Muslim, and/or of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) heritage have long made significant contributions to the literary canon and the literary community in the United States. Despite marginalization, erasure, and even violence, we have…
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The year’s best Twin Cities art exhibitions were diverse and international
History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary was included in the Star Tribune’s “best of 2019 arts and entertainment” roundup.
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New York Mills: a visual art exhibition + indie film screenings
COVID19 UPDATE: The reception on March 20 has been cancelled. The NYMCC gallery is implementing “soft close” this week with shorter hours while they clean the space. If someone wants to see the show, they will be allowed in. All events at NYMCC are postponed or cancelled for the rest of the month. Stay tuned…
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Getting Out: Mn Artists Guest Editor Moheb Soliman
Moheb shares the following introduction to his series, titled “Getting Out”: “Art,Bye bye. Hello real life. Goodbye translation; hello interpretation. Hello experience and thought unrendered; hello satisfaction or distress on the first order. Hello people, the people, by millions. Hello wilderness- fecundity, without people and art. Hello lucid utility or recreation versus incessant re-creation; hello…
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Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness Featured in Star Tribune
Art exhibition at SooVAC rejects ‘Middle East’ in favor of a more inclusive community. SWANA is meant as a corrective to “Middle East,” a Western, colonialist term. Defining the region along geographic rather than political lines, its borders stretch from Morocco in the west to Afghanistan in the east, embracing a broader swath of countries,…
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History Is Not Here Featured in ArtAsiaPacific
“In addition to bringing works by an international roster of artists to the Twin Cities, ‘History Is Not Here’ affirmed the important role that Mizna, the only publication of its kind in the United States, has played in contemporary discourse related to art and literature of the Arab and Arab-American diaspora.” History Is Not Here:…
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St. Cloud State University: a visual art exhibition + indie film screenings
This January, Mizna is partnering with SooVAC to bring contemporary arts programming by SWANA artists + filmmakers to greater Minnesota. Visual arts exhibition Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness will travel to St. Cloud (January 30–February 27, 2020) and New York Mills (March 4–April 4, 2020), accompanied by a selection of notable films from…
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Poetry Leaders from Across the U. S. to Gather in Florida to Mark Dramatic Growth in Readers and Historic Philanthropic Gifts
New York, NY (November 8, 2019)— Leaders from more than 25 national, regional, and local poetry organizations will hold a first-ever gathering in Miami, Florida from November 15 to 17. The organizations are members of the Poetry Coalition, an alliance dedicated to increasing the visibility of poets and poetry and to demonstrating the art form’s ability…
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Let There Be Spaces In Your Togetherness
Mizna partners with SooVAC to present Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness, a juried group exhibition by local and national artists from the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region or of SWANA descent. Featured image–Nervous System by Katayoun Amjadi. Image courtesy of the artist. OPENING RECEPTION– Saturday, December 7, 6–9pmON VIEW– December 7, 2019–January 9, 2020 EXHIBITING…
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Mizna featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Mizna celebrated twenty years with a benefit on November 2, 2019 at Hennepin Theatre Trust. NPR reporter and Mizna journal contributor Hannah Allam covered the event for Weekend Edition. See all photos from our twentieth anniversary benefit here. Hannah Allam is a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR,…