Category: Mizna News
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A Note on Jocelyne Saab and Screening Violence
Michelle Baroody This text is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond. On January 7, 2019, Lebanon lost a pioneering filmmaker, journalist, photographer, artist, and…
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Mizna Film Series Summer 2021: Beirut
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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Q&A with Empty Metal’s Adam Khalil
This Q&A is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond. Q. The interplay of surveillance and intuition comes into a clear focus throughout this film. How do…
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Call for Submissions: The Experimental Issue
Note: Submissions for the Experimental Issue are now closed Call for submissions for Mizna: The Experimental Issue, Winter 2021. Due August 20, 2021. 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, we have…
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Mizna at RAWIfest
Mizna is a proud sponsor and presenter of this year’s RAWIfest, a free virtual program celebrating Anglophone SWANA (Southwest Asian & North African) literature and performance art. RAWIfest takes place June 10–13, 2021. In addition to presenting a virtual Hafla, Mizna will co-present two readings which highlight and celebrate queer SWANA artistry. +Queer Voices Reading…
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Press Release: Mizna is Recognized as Regional Cultural Treasure
McKnight, Ford, Bush, and Jerome Foundations Create New Initiative for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American-Led Arts Organizations Press contact:Lana Salah Barkawi, Executive & Artistic Directorlana@mizna.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 18, 2021 While we are heartbroken and distraught by the brutality that is being experienced by Palestinians today, Mizna has some happy news to share: we…
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تضامن | Solidarity: A Gathering for Palestine
Join us on Sunday, May 16, 6pm–8pm at Black Table Arts (3737 Minnehaha Ave, S Minneapolis 55406) for a gathering in solidarity with our Palestinian kin in struggle against seven decades of settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing. May 15 marks the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, or “the catastrophe,” the day that commemorates the violent…
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Al Asleyeen
Hazem Fahmy This text is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond. Any discussion of Marwan Hamed and Ahmed Mourad’s 2017 film must begin with language.…
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Mizna: The Comix Issue Virtual Launch
UPDATE: A recording of the launch event of Mizna: The Comix Issue is available here. Join us in launching Mizna: The Comix Issue virtually! Guest editor Leila Abedelrazaq will host a conversation with some of the artists in the issue, discussing their work in this special collection and reflecting on their art practice. Including Merieme…
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It is Burning./ It is Dreaming./ It is Waking Up/: Poetry and Environmental Justice
Mizna is proud to present a reading exploring poetry and environmental justice featuring the powerful poets Samiya Bashir, Leila Chatti, and Amir Rabiyah on Saturday May 15, 2021. This reading’s theme was collectively chosen by members of the Poetry Coalition, of which Mizna is a member, and the is titled after the line “It is…