Category: Mizna News

Read Judy Woodward’s Park Bugle interview with Mizna’s executive director Lana Barkawi.

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Mizna is a Twin Cities-based arts organization that provides a forum for Arab American film, literature, and art. Our main programs are the literary journal, Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America, and the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. Mizna is seeking interns to help with each of these projects. Literary Journal InternA literary…

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS DECEMBER 31, 2012 Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is seeking films–narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated–both feature-length and shorts, by and/or about Arabs and Arab Americans.  We welcome your submissions and inquires and encourage you to spread the word about this call for submission. We will not be able to address…

Mizna is pleased to announce the addition of poet Jen March to our editorial team. Jen has long been in the Mizna family, having received a Mizna Latitudes grant and having her poetry published in the journal. She is also an accomplished poetry editor and is the founder of Co-Kisser, the annual poetry-film festival. As our…

BY MOHANNAD GHAWANMEH During the long wait between Twin Cities Arab Film Festival editions, where do you go to stay tuned in to the landscape of Arab film? Mizna is proud to present Cinema Arabiata, a new blog about Arab film by film enthusiast and past TCAFF curator, Mohannad Ghawanmeh. From Mohannad, “Cinema Arabiata aims to cover Arab…

MIZNA’S 7TH TWIN CITIES ARAB FILM FESTIVALDeadline extended, now August 29, 2011! Mizna’s 7th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is now accepting submissions. The festival is seeking narratives, documentaries, experimental films, and animated films, both feature-length and shorts, by and/or about Arabs and Arab Americans.  We welcome your entries and inquiries, and thank you in…

MINNESOTA’S FIRST ARAB FILM FESTIVAL SPEAKS LOUDER THAN CNN Jeremy O’Kasick, City Pages At the close of Jenin Jenin, a Palestinian documentary that’s screening as part of “So Much I Want to Say: Minnesota’s First Arab Film Festival,” a street hawker pretends to call George W. Bush using a sandal, but is ironically transferred to…

“PROSE, POETRY & ART EXPLORING ARAB AMERICA” Library Journal 1999. 3/yr. $40. Ed: Lisa Adwan. PO Box 14294, Minneapolis, MN 55414; www.mizna.org. ISSN 1535-2331. Illus. Aud: GA (Subject: Literature. Culture. Issues examined: Vol. 3, No. 3 & Vol. 4, No. 1) Mizna, a Minneapolis-based literary journal concerned with the Arab American viewpoint, taps directly into…