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Baba’s and Mizna co-present the second 2026 reading of their quarterly series featuring the Mizna Writing Collective and their invited guests. This time, we’ll hear from George Abraham, Abdimalik Ahmed, and Fargo Nissim Tbakhi.

Abraham and Tbakhi will be visiting the Twin Cities in conjunction with the premiere of their play EVE on August 28–29, 2026. Learn more here.

Join us on August 25, 2026 at 7pm

No RSVP needed, this event is free to attend and will have ASL interpretation.

This event is curated by Nikki Luna.

ABOUT THE READERS

Abdimalik Ahmed is a multi-award-winning playwright, director, and filmmaker based in Minneapolis, MN. In addition to writing, Ahmed works as a 2nd AD/production assistant on local commercials, film, and TV.

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic and performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025), which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).