I am honored and touched that my novel is on Mizna's list of favorite SWANA books of 2025 mizna.org/mizna-online...

Now on Mizna Online: Favorite SWANA Books of 2025 To close out 2025, Summer Farah, Samia Saliba, and Mizna staff reflect on the abundance of literature from SWANA authors this year and review some of their favorites! Read the full review of 2025 SWANA books: mizna.org/mizna-online...

Baba’s and Mizna co-present the fourth reading of their quarterly series. This time, we’ll hear from Yara Omer, Randall J. Tyrone, and Michelle Zamanian. Come early for a holiday bazaar ft Mizna merch, Baba’s goods + local makers! Join us on 12/5 at Baba’s Hummus House // 5pm bazaar, 7pm reading

Be the first to join Monthly for Mizna! The first 10 people to join the movement to sustain Mizna with a monthly donation of $10 or more will receive a cloud keychain! givemn.org/mizna

Join Monthly for Mizna ✨ Help Mizna keep blooming 🌸 We’re calling on our community to help us double our monthly donors from 67 to 134 by year’s end. Every monthly gift, even $5, fuels the art, justice, and creative freedom that define Mizna. givemn.org/mizna

Call For Submissions: Mizna 27.1 // Submissions open Nov 1, 2025 and close Dec 1, 2025. Submissions will soon be accepted for our first 2026 issue! This upcoming issue is unthemed. We welcome all writing that adheres to Mizna’s guidelines. Learn more: mizna.org/mizna-news/c...

It is unfathomable that we have reached this moment. Two years of live-streamed US-backed Zionist genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Marking this moment of profound grief and rage, today Mizna offers a literary memorial. Read the Memorial Folio here: mizna.org/mizna-online...

Full schedule is live for the 2025 Arab Film Festival (Sept 24-28) in Mpls! Highlights include Palestinian shorts, Catharsis dance night, free outdoor screening of Elia Suleiman's DIVINE INTERVENTION, & EAST OF NOON + Q&A w/Hala Elkoussy. 🎞️🍉🇵🇸 @miznaarabart.bsky.social tcaff25.eventive.org/schedule

Lights⚡️Camera 🎥 Action! 🎬 ANNOUNCING THE 2025 ARAB FILM FEST FULL LINEUP 🎟️ TICKETS + PASSES AVAILABLE WHAT: 19th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival WHEN: Sept 24–28, 2024 WHERE: The Main Cinema, closing events at the Walker Art Center TICKETS + PASSES: tcaff25.eventive.org

CATHARSIS: ARAB FILM FEST DANCE NIGHT SEPT 27 AT THE CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER Join Mizna for a night of purging our grief and anger on the dance floor, featuring local DJs Jacques, Jamal, and Talia Knight. Free for Pass-holders. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/mizna-and-...

2025 ARAB FILM FEST WORKSHOP: MAKING A SHORT FILM LIKE A BADASS WITH RANDA JARRAR 9/25-26, 12-3pm at FilmNorth Sliding scale workshop fee starting at $30. Learn more + register now at bit.ly/aff25-workshop

New York! Join us at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair September 11-14, 2025 at MoMA PS1! Our latest journals, merch, and more will be available for purchase. +Stay tuned about some NYC programming coming to you soon 👀

ARAB FILM FEST OPENING NIGHT: Thank You for Banking With Us by Laila Abbas + post-screening Q+A with the director + At 6pm, before the film, join us for an opening reception with light refreshments from Shish!

I forget we have lost the meaning of time; our appointments now stand in the line with us Bread line water line fear line time line line of death True steadfastness is returning from all these lines with every part of your body intact Your soul is of course damaged. That’s okay.

"In the line an old woman curses the fields and the ears of grain as she lists the names of the great cities for you She sews the rope of hunger to make a large sack of flour enough for the guards of the tents" -Nima Hasan, March 1 Recall her words as you weigh what is at stake in acting right now

"'I Bequeath Life To You, For We Die Without Life Knowing Us'—Nima Hasan Writing From the Ends of the Homeland," A collection of writings that Hasan shared publicly in 2024 during the genocide in Gaza, edited by Rania Jawad, translated by Malaka Shwaikh. mizna.org/mizna-online...

Join our monthly online series Words for Palestine 7/23, 2025 at 7pm ET/6pm CT This special edition celebrates Mizna authors who have recently released or have forthcoming books, Fargo Tbakhi, Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, and Sarah Aziza. mizna.org/event/words-...

Mizna is growing our board! We're seeking passionate and committed individuals to join our board of directors. We’ll review all submissions and reach out to candidates who align with our needs on a rolling basis. Learn more + apply : mizna.org/mizna-news/o...

The July edition of Mizna Film Series: Iranian Classics is a double feature of sorts, presenting two works by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad! On July 23 at 7pm, watch Gilaneh On July 26 at 1pm, watch Tales (Ghesha) Tickets: www.trylon.org/film-series/...

This week: Join us for a special screening + fundraiser aiming to provide space for our local community to learn about and process the recent events in Sudan. When: July 6 at 7 PM Where: New City Center (Sanctuary) Tickets: sudanonscreen.eventive.org/schedule/684...

Just arrived in the Mizna offices: limited edition risograph pamphlet by Sudanese artist Sarah Elawad! Want a copy? Those who make a donation at our Sudan on Screen event next week will receive a print . Learn more about the screening: mizna.org/event/sudan-...

Excerpt from Palestinian Love Poem, from Fargo Tbakhi's debut poetry collection TERROR COUNTER. Today, Mizna honors the launch of this collection by publishing excerpts on Mizna Online. mizna.org/mizna-online...

Join us for this special screening of SIT IN + fundraiser aiming to provide space for our local community to learn about and process the recent events in Sudan. 7/6 at 7 PM at New City Center (Sanctuary) Tickets: mizna.org/event/sudan-...

We're excited to welcome Ladan Osman as one of the readers at our virtual event Words for Palestine next week! mizna.org/event/wfp202...

This Pride Month, Mizna Online is honored to be republishing selections from Mizna 21.1: Queer + Trans Voices. This week, Ghinwa Jawhari teases apart the multiple layers of queer experience of a summer spent in Lebanon during the 2006 war. Read more: mizna.org/mizna-online...

For this year's Pride Month, Mizna Online is honored to be republishing selections from Mizna 21.1: Queer + Trans Voices for every week of June. This week, Mejdulene B. Shomali chronicles a revelatory moment of self-realization and tributes the iconic actor Patrick Swayze. mizna.org/mizna-online...

Join Mizna for a screening of SIT IN (2024) by Eltayeb Mahdi followed by a post-screening discussion. 7 PM (doors at 6:30 PM) at New City Center This event will raise funds for Sunduq Al Sudan and Via Campesina. RSVP: sudanonscreen.eventive.org/schedule/684...

Join our monthly online series Words for Palestine. This special edition celebrates writing in Mizna’s Futurities issue and features readings from Ft. sara bedri, Malak Hajazi, Najwa Juma, Aya Krisht, Ladan Osman, and Maya Salameh. 6/26, 2025 at 7pm ET bit.ly/WordsforPalestine

Just announced: Two free storytelling workshops on June 29 and July 7 at Pillsbury House in remembrance of the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder. June 29 with @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social loft.org/events/georg... July 7 with @therafaeljohnson.bsky.social loft.org/events/georg...

PRIDE MONTH BUNDLE Through June 30, bundle our two queer and SWANA centered publications, I Want Sky and Mizna: Queer and Trans Voices for $15! Use code SWANAPRIDE2025 at checkout mizna.org/shop

Our recently published Futuries issue is getting packaged up and sent around the world! Order your copy today at mizna.org/shop

SAVE THE DATE: 19TH TWIN CITIES ARAB FILM FESTIVAL WHEN: Sept 24–28, 2025 WHERE: The Main Cinema + Walker Art Center The Arab Film Fest returns September 24–28, 2025 at the Main Cinema in Minneapolis, with a closing day of special films and programs at the Walker Art Center.

My latest for wonderful @miznaarabart.bsky.social on Tunisia’s speculative futures and pasts. A dream! mizna.org/mizna-online...

Tunisian Afterglows, Chronic Collisions by Farah Abdessamad Abdessamad contemplates the layering of history atop history in a small Tunisian town on the Mediterranean in this exclusive feature, published as part of the Futurities issue mizna.org/mizna-online...

We are so grateful for the buoying support we received during this year's spring appeal. If you haven't given yet, there is still time to support us! No amount is too small. Your donation, even $5 or $15, builds our collective power to withstand whatever comes next. Give now at givemn.org/mizna

Now on Mizna Online: Five poems by Dalia Taha, translated by Sara Elkamel. Palestinian poet and playwright Dalia Taha builds a refuge for a poetry exhausted after millennia-long encounters with pain and conflict. Read more: mizna.org/mizna-online...

Insurgent Transmissions: A Palestine Film Series continues with a special Pride Month screening in June! Join us 6/4at 7pm for a program of short films curated by Queer Cinema for Palestine + co-presented with Educators for Justice in Palestine UMN. 🎟️ mizna.org/event/insurg...

Now on Mizna Online: The Thinker by Sima Shakhsari. Forwarding a praxis of radical antifascist activist-scholarship, Shakhsari follows the example set by Angela Davis, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and bell hooks in interrogating the academic detachment pervading their milieu. mizna.org/mizna-online...

TOMORROW: SYRIA ON SCREEN Screening of The War Show by Obaidah Zytoon and post-screening discussion with Ramah Kudaimi and Mazen Halabi. Donations at the event go to SARD’s project to rebuild university dorms in Aleppo. Tickets: mizna.org/event/syria-...

Today marks 77 years since the beginning of the ongoing Nakba in Palestine. As we remember the outset of the settler colonial occupation of Palestine, we are witnessing the Nakba as a present-day reality as the genocide in Gaza passes its 19-month-mark.

This week, Mizna presents a fundraiser screening for Syria, benefiting SARD's project to rebuild university dorms in Aleppo. Join us for a screening of The War Show (2016) by Obaidah Zytoon + discussion with Ramah Kudaimi and Mazen Halabi. 5/16 at 6PM syriaonscreen.eventive.org/schedule/67f...

Thank You for Your Overwhelming Support! At a moment when systems are being actively dismantled and are intentionally failing all of us, you—our incredible community—we reached our spring fundraising goal of $12,000 astonishingly quickly. Thank you!

Mizna is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position. We seek a candidate who will work to increase the readership of our journal + Mizna Online by increasing and broadening the circulation and distribution. Learn more + apply mizna.org/mizna-news/l...

Tomorrow! Join us for a screening of 3CM LESS by Azza El-Hassan as part of Insurgent Transmissions! Join us on May 7, 2025 at 7pm for a screening of 3CM LESS by Azza El-Hassan. Tickets: mizna.org/event/insurg...

URGENT: NEA GRANT TERMINATED WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT Late Friday night we received a chilling email stating that our NEA grant has been terminated. Today we learned that the jobs of the Literary Arts program officers we have been working with have been eliminated.

Now on Mizna Online: "disarm humanity: meditations from the third decade of the third millennium" Part manifesto, part scholarship, part extended poetic engagement, Umniya Najaer makes a radical bid for a better future. mizna.org/mizna-online...

As we enter this spring season, the new administration has brought a multitude of legislative and executive orders that directly threaten the survival of arts organizations like Mizna. Your support keeps us stable. Give today at givemn.org/mizna

Film stills from على حافة البحر/ At the Edge of the Sea, by Dena Al-Adeeb + Sholeh Asgary, screening as part of the reading and symposium celebrating the launch of Mizna: Futurities. Join us 5/2, 3–6pm at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. RSVP: mizna.org/event/the-wo...

Insurgent Transmissions: A Palestine Film Series continues with a May screening! Join us on May 7, 2025 at 7pm for a screening of 3CM LESS by Azza El-Hassan. Tickets: mizna.org/event/insurg...

Now on Mizna Online: On Parallel Time by Walid Daqqa In a letter to a friend, the late thinker, freedom fighter, and political prisoner #WalidDaqqa describes the systematic colonization of time in Zionist prisons. Translated by Nour Eldin Hussein. mizna.org/mizna-online...