Category: Mizna News
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Call for Positions: Mizna Black SWANA Takeover
The winter 2022 issue of Mizna will be a Black takeover issue. Centered on the Black and Afro-SWANA communities in the Southwest Asia + North Africa region and diaspora, the issue will be both collaborative and reflexive in its editorial process and as a finished product in order to amplify Black voices, work, and modes…
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Filmmaker Discussion: Mai Masri In Conversation with Miriam Cooke
Mizna is presents a discussion between renowned filmmaker Mai Masri and scholar Miriam Cooke. Masri and Cooke will discuss Suspended Dreams, directed in 1992 by Masri and her late husband Jean Chamoun, as well as Masri’s filmography, which focuses on the real life struggles of the women and children living in the Occupied Palestinian and Lebanon.…
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Remembering the Beirut Port Explosion
On August, 4, 2020 a portion of the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, kept in the centrally located port of Beirut, exploded with disastrous results. Within minutes, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history killed hundreds of people, injured thousands, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Though plenty of testimony, statistics, and videos have…
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“Black Lives Matter” by Anis Chouchene
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, an eruption of anti-brutality riots commenced across the U.S. in support of Black lives. As the riots began to spread outside of Minnesota and the United States and into other parts of the world, the celebrated Tunisian poet, Anis Chouchene, known for his outspokenness regarding anti-Blackness in…
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“Our Identity as Human”: Interview with Anis Chouchene by Ruba ElMelik
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, an eruption of anti-brutality riots commenced across the U.S. in support of Black lives. As the riots began to spread outside of Minnesota and the United States and into other parts of the world, the celebrated Tunisian poet, Anis Chouchene, known for his outspokenness regarding anti-Blackness in…
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Letters from Beirut: Discussion with Rayyane Tabet and Dalia Said Mostafa
In conjunction with our Beirut-focused summer film series, Mizna presents a discussion on Lebanese aesthetics and the legacy of Jocelyne Saab with artist Rayyane Tabet and scholar Dr. Dalia Said Mostafa. This discussion will be moderated by artist and writer Lamia Abukhadra. This virtual discussion took place Friday, July 30, 2021 at 12pm CT. ABOUT…
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‘You Have to Treat an Image Like it Never Existed’: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy
Still from “Beirut, Never Again” (dir. Jocelyne Saab, 1976)
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محادثة مع فنانين من مزنة: عدد الكوميكس
English follows شاركوا مزنة في محادثة باللغة العربية مع ثلاث فنانين من مزنة: عدد الكوميكس. سيناقش طارق أبو عمر، حسام عمران، وكريستيان سليمان أعمالهم داخل هذا الإصدار الخاص وسيتحدثون عن أساليبهم الإبداعية الحوار يوم السبت ١٠ يوليو ٢٠٢١ الساعة ١١ صباحًا بتوقيت مينيابوليس احجز مكانك عدد مزنة لشتاء ٢٠٢٠ قامت بتحريره الروائية التصويرية الفلسطينية ليلى…
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Mizna x AAWW: Announcing I WANT SKY
One year ago, activist and writer Sarah Hegazy ended her life in response to unimaginable cruelty, after being imprisoned and tortured by the Egyptian regime. Mizna in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop‘s The Margins, present I WANT SKY, a collection honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ people of…
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Mizna Wins FIRECRACKER AWARD
Mizna is thrilled to announce that our literary journal has won a FIRECRACKER AWARD from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)! This award is given annually to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and…