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Help plan Mizna's 2013 film festival.

Have you been moved by the goings on in the Arab World recently? Are you a film enthusiast? Would you like to learn more about Arab art and culture? If so, join us to find out how you can help plan Mizna's next Twin Cities Arab Film Festival.

Mohannad Ghawanmeh in Triumph67.

Mizna is happy to welcome Mohannad Ghawanmeh back on board as festival curator. Mohannad was one of the founding members of Mizna's TCAFF and has curated two past editions, and he also helped launch the Minneapolis/St. Paul Italian Film Festival in 2008. He was lead actor and co-producer of the full-length film Triumph67, and has recently launched a blog about Arab film, Cinema Arabiata. Mohannad brings an expertise and enthusiasm for Arab film, and we are excited to have him back!

The TCAFF is a local art institution, bringing the best of Arab cinema to the Twin Cities. Mizna has produced seven editions of the festival (see the website for our 2011 festival here), and we need an enthusiastic group to help plan our next one. We welcome your participation and contribution!

Join the committee or inquire further by e-mailing mohannad@mizna.org

Thank you for your generosity in supporting Mizna, a Minneapolis-based Arab American cultural organization with a mission to celebrate expression and diversity in the Arab community! Mizna was formed in 1998 and has done much work to promote Arab American artistic expression since that time. We publish a nationally recognized literary journal, and have presented several well-attended community arts events as well. We do all of this work as a volunteer-run, non-profit organization that survives on grants and donations. Your donation will greatly help us to continue our important mission. Mizna is a 501(c)(3) organization and donations are deductible for U.S. taxpayers. Learn more or donate now.

FEATURED STORIES

Street Art of the Arab Spring

Mizna is participating in Northern Spark, a major Twin Cities all-night art festival on June 8! (Yeah, you read that right—ALL NIGHT, dusk to dawn.) It's a participatory street art project, and we want you to join us!

We will be hosting a street art installation called "Underpass of the Eyes of Freedom" that will bring the spirit of the recent and ongoing Arab revolutions and uprisings to St. Paul. Festival goers are called to wander into an underpass of the Arab Spring: Take a spray can, an Arabic stencil: reinscribe potent global expressions of resistance and change. Including graffiti designs by Hend Kheera, Islam Shabana, Hamza Salim, Dunya Alwan. Amazing, right?

ARTIST HEND KHEERA WILL BE JOINING US FROM CAIRO. MORE >>

Summer Arabic Classes

This summer, Mizna will be offering four classes in spoken and written Arabic: Arabic I, II, III, and an Advanced Class. Levels I and II will be 10-week sessions taught by Rita Farah, and Level III and Advanced Arabic: Media & Culture will be intensive 5-week sessions taught by Mohammed Elmeski, Ph.D. Classes will take place in Mizna's office in St. Paul. MORE >>

Journal Submissions Deadline: July 31. Special Issue: FOOD

Mizna is currently accepting electronic submissions for the 2013 issues of the journal. We welcome submissions on Arab American themes that reflect the diversity of our community.

Submissions for winter issue (food theme) due July 31, 2013 MORE >>

About Mizna

Mizna is a forum for Arab American film, literature, and art. Mizna publishes the only journal of Arab American literature and presents the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival as well as some of the most talented Arab American artists in the visual arts, on stage, in music, and in film—including Simon Shaheen, Suheir Hammad, Hakim Belabbes, Nadia El Fani, Jack Shaheen, Raed Al Helou, Mai Masri, the Iron Sheik, Elias Khoury and others.

Mizna presents
Cinema Arabiata an Arab film blog by Mohannad Ghawanmeh.

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RECENT ADDITIONS

	Events: Street Art of the Arab Spring (June 8th, 2013)
	Events: Summer Arabic Classes (April 26th, 2013)
	Events: OTHERWISE OCCUPIED: First-ever Palestinian exhibit at upcoming Venice Biennale (March 30th, 2013)
	Events: Mizna's first Writer-in-Residence, playwright Ismail Khalidi (March 29th, 2013)
	Events: Novelist Randa Jarrar \| May 10 at Honey (March 19th, 2013)
	Events: Silaat Showcase at St. Paul Almanac's Reading Series (March 16th, 2013)
	Events: Spring Arabic Classes: Starting February 2013 (February 1st, 2013)
	Events: Silaat/Connections: Children's Story Hour Saturday, February 23 (January 26th, 2013)

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