October 28, 2023

The Bringers of Violence

by Ismail Khalidi

Again, Fanon’s words come to mind: “The town belonging to the colonized people . . . the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how.”

July 23, 2026

The hero is dead, long live the mountain: Faris Dajani’s Threshold

by leena aboutaleb

BALTIMORE—Faris Dajani, a Palestinian-Jordanian multidisciplinary artist, stuns in his first solo exhibition, Threshold, Image. Situated in Gallery CA off East Oliver St. in Baltimore, Dajani cuts the thread of an imperial, detached reality at its metaphorical knees.

July 21, 2026

Mizna Launches Mizna Fellowship for Early Career Artist Supported by Jerome Foundation

First Mizna Fellows are Minnesota-based Tarik Dobbs and Yasmin Yassin Mizna launches an annual fellowship, generously supported by the Jerome Foundation, to foster the work of early career SWANA artists who are developing new, innovative, socially engaged work. The two 2026 fellows, writer and artist Tarik Dobbs and filmmaker Yasmin Yassin, whose work corresponds to Mizna’s flagship program areas, literature and moving image, to pursue their creative interests, research, and...

July 15, 2026

Letter to a Disabled Brown Transsexual with Endometriosis

by Zeyn Joukhadar

After dinner, when Baba goes to wash up, I tug on Mama’s sleeve. “When you go,” I say, “how will I know who I am?”