March 18, 2025
Mizna at AWP 2025
by Lamia Abukhadra | in Literary
The 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair takes place March 26–29, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Join Mizna for a long weekend of SWANA lit! At this year’s conference, Mizna will present an AWP Featured Event with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Mosaab Abu Toha, an AWP offsite event, and panels. Learn more about how to attend the AWP 2025 here.Mizna + RAWI BoothCatastrophe + Futurities: A Mizna AWP Offsite EventFeatured Event: Mizna Gathers Lena Khalaf Tuffaha & Mosab Abu Toha in ConversationMizna...
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March 4, 2025
RAINDROPS
by Mizna Intern | in From the Journal
Raindrops by Mazen Halabi originally appeared in Mizna issue 8.1, in the summer of 2006. In 2025 his work remains one of the numbered works written by or about Syrians to be published by Mizna. While Halabi’s story was first published before the Syrian revolution of 2011 against the Assad regime, and is now running in the aftermath of its fall, his work remains relevant and insightful. Raindrops is a story about youth: its sarcastic and playful moments, as well as the aberrant and painful...
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February 26, 2025
Uncrafted #2: An Interview with Sarah Aziza
by Hazem Fahmy
In the past few decades, as liberal cultural institutions have grown more dastardly effective at co-opting and defanging the political potential of writers and artists from historically marginalized backgrounds, the amorphous imperative to “witness” continuously re-emerges in the face of unceasing tragedy wrought about by the United States, its ruling class, and its ghastly allies across the globe. We are implored to “witness” atrocity after atrocity, but never as more than...
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