Category: Mizna News
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Toward a Free Palestine: Resources to Act for and Learn About Palestine
As the genocidal attack on Gaza has led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths and counting, we reaffirm our ongoing solidarity with Palestinian liberation. We condemn the recent racist and Islamaphobic depictions of Palestinians in mainstream news media and the silence of many cultural, political, and educational institutions, which has led to the attack,…
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A Liberatory Demand from Queers in Palestine
We write this as workers, students, farmers, parents – as Palestinians, as queer Palestinians. We write this not because our queerness exceptionalizes our positions but because, in the same way, we have been othered as queers, we are now facing patriarchal colonial tactics that seek to further alienate us as queer Palestinians. To gather our…
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Announcing the 2023 Arab Film Festival Awards
Films selected to be part of the 2023 Arab Film Festival films are in the running to win juried awards for Best Documentary, Best Narrative, and Best Short Film as well as Audience Awards. Winners of the Audience and Jury Awards for Best Narrative and Documentary films win a $500 cash prize while the winners…
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Press Release: Mizna Journal Awarded Prestigious Whiting Literary Prize
Mizna has been named as a recipient of the prestigious Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Founded in 2018, the prize’s purpose is to recognize excellence and to empower outstanding nonprofit publications to develop and implement ideas that will have a transformative impact and help sustain their works as champions of writers. As part of The Whiting…
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RAWIfest 2023
The Radius of Arab American Writers and Mizna are excited to host Mizna+RAWIFest, RAWI’s bi-annual conference for 2023, in RAWI’s 30th year! The conference will take place October 26 through 28 in Minneapolis and online. This event is FULLY-HYBRID, those choosing to attend online will be able to fully participate. The conference will kick-off with…
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The Ineffable Resonance– Safia Elhillo interviews Charif Shanahan
This text is published as part of Mizna: 23.2: Black SWANA Takeover. Available to order here. Poets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan first met during Cave Canem’s 2014 writing retreat, and, at the end of their time together, Safia’s graduation speech was abundant with praise for Charif’s work and his depiction of the mother figure– a woman…
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Mizna Appoints Ellina Kevorkian as Deputy Director
KEVORKIAN’S EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE COMES AT A PERIOD OF CRITICAL ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH AT MIZNA Mizna is pleased to announce the appointment of Ellina Kevorkian to the position of Deputy Director, following an international search. Kevorkian recently served as Franconia Sculpture Park’s Director of Artist Residency Programs and previously as the Artistic Director for Artist Residency Programs…
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Call for Submissions: The Cinema Issue
Call for submissions, Mizna: The Cinema Issue, Winter 2023. The deadline has been extended to June 26, 2023. 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, Mizna has been creating a decolonized cultural…