During the long wait between Twin Cities Arab Film Festival editions, where do you go to stay tuned in to the landscape of Arab film? Mizna is proud to present Cinema Arabiata, a new blog about Arab film by film enthusiast and past TCAFF curator, Mohannad Ghawanmeh. From Mohannad, "Cinema Arabiata aims to cover Arab cinema primarily, but not exclusively. Its ambition is to persuade my readers that cinema, including Arab cinema, has the demonstrated potential not only to inform and impact, but to profoundly move and inspire, to leave a lasting and indelible mark on the lives of it audiences."   MORE >>

Mizna's 7th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is now accepting submissions. The festival is seeking narratives, documentaries, experimental films, and animated films, both feature-length and shorts, by and/or about Arabs and Arab Americans. The deadline for entries is now August 29, 2011.   MORE >>

At such a distressing moment in history as this, the festival's birth comes as a blessing to anyone in search of overlooked perspectives from the Middle East. "So Much I Want to Say" promises to give balance to grossly biased wartime media coverage and similarly narrow depictions of Arabs elsewhere in the West.   MORE >>

Certainly there is no better time than right now for a journal of this nature in the United States. Featuring fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and artwork dealing with Arab American concerns, Mizna conveys serious issues with power and style while avoiding the dry and academic text of more scholarly publications.   MORE >>

The Arab as boogeyman is not a new concept, but after the Sept. 11 attacks, some local Arabs and Muslims feel that stereotypes have only increased, fueled by hatred and fear. That's why Mizna, an organization that promotes Arab-American and Muslim culture, chose Halloween to stage "Fearful Verses; Trapped Between Bush and Bin Laden."   MORE >>