Category: Mizna News
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The Experimental Issue Virtual Launch
On Sunday, January 30, Mizna launches The Experimental Issue with TWENTY ONE AUTHORS. WATCH HERE Featured readers include Mays Albaik, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman, Darius Atefat-Peckman, Hajjar Baban, Doris Bittar, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Mohammed El-Kurd, Tracy Fuad, Farah Kader, Magdeline Maher, Khashayar Mohammadi, Yasmine Rukia, hana roz, Trish Salah, Glenn Shaheen, Nadia Shihab, Fargo Tbakhi, Mohamed Tonsy,…
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Mizna Film Series Winter 2022: Palestine Focus, Route 181
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs, marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. While our annual Film Fest focuses primarily on the works of contemporary artists, the Mizna Film Series provides a space to expand our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring…
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Mizna 22.1 Foreword: On SWANA Literature + Art
Ruba ElMelik, Aram Kavoossi and Mizna Community Purchase your copy of Mizna 22.1 here. As Mizna asserts its identity beyond the frame of Arabness, we find ourselves gathering more as a collective of intersecting lives and experiences than as representatives of any fixed identity. While Mizna’s work has recently been categorized under the term Southwest…
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Mizna 22.1 Virtual Launch
WATCH THE LAUNCH HERE Mizna launches its summer 2021 issue, Mizna 22.1, featuring readings by Hassan Saby, Maya Salameh, Nardine Taleb and Rania Mamoun. This virtual reading takes place Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 5pm CT. ORDER MIZNA 22.1 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Hassan Saby is the manifestation of our community’s collective homophobia. Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of…
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Villainy: A Mizna Community Reading + Conversation
Harnessing street protest as a poetic formation, Andrea Abi-Karam’s latest book of poetry, Villainy, exhibits the desires that bring queers into public space. Mizna celebrates the release of Villainy with a virtual reading and conversation on Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 1pm CT. Featuring readings by Andrea Abi-Karam, Elmaz Abinader, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Tarik Dobbs, and Nour Kamel, followed by a…
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Mizna Film Series Fall 2021: Best of the Fest
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs, marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. While our annual Film Fest focuses primarily on the works of contemporary artists, the Mizna Film Series provides a space to expand our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring…
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ARTIST TALK—Wael Morcos: Graphic Design in Multi-Cultural Contexts
Designing across a variety of scripts comes with a set of challenges. Consideration for history, cultural nuances, and diverse communities come into play. In this talk, Wael Morcos will share some of his current work at the design studio Morcos Key unfolding between the US and South West Asia and North Africa, spanning editorial, branding, exhibition,…
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I Want Sky: Celebrating Sarah Hegazy
A Digital and Print Collection 2022 Pride Reading in NYC Seated is limited, RSVP today! Watch I Want Sky Print Edition Launch Recorded live on Sunday, November 7, 2021 at Open Book, Minneapolis. Read I Want Sky Digital EditionOrder I Want Sky Print Edition I Want Sky collects prose, poems, and hybrid work celebrating Egyptian…
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Mizna’s Arab Film Fest: Tulsa Edition
Circle Cinema OCTOBER 21–24, 2021 Mizna’s Arab Film Fest is on tour to Tulsa! A curated selection of contemporary and restored films from will screen to Tulsa, Oklahoma audiences with our partners, Circle Cinema and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. The festival is made possible thanks to generous support from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Curated by…