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 Mazen Halabi
Thunder drummed in jubilation as our tires tangoed with the city’s cobblestones, and we rode like Khalid and Abu Obiedah, banging on the city’s gates, claiming Damascus as our own. We were her boys, and she gently embraced us, pulling the cover of rain over to protect us. Our clothes, drenched and heavy with rain, clung tightly. We were soaked to the last inch of our bodies. We wore soft, innocent smiles. Not a word was uttered.
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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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