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...
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September 8, 2025
Join the Call to Cancel PEN America at University of Minnesota
[Background image above depicts an Israeli strike on the Islamic University of Gaza on December 2, 2023, killing physics professor physics professor Sufyan Tayeh. Photo retrieved from the Andolu Agency.] **UPDATE The link to take immediate action has been corrected at the bottom of this caption ** On September 18, 2025, the University of Minnesota’s Office of the Vice Provost and the Senate Faculty Consultative Committee will host PEN America to lead a symposium called A Campus for...
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December 20, 2024
Moheb Soliman Rejoins Mizna Staff as Executive Editor and Literary Programs Director
Mizna welcomes Moheb Soliman, who will begin as Executive Editor and Literary Programs, taking over from George Abraham’s distinguished period at the helm of the Mizna journal. Abraham will continue on in a new role as Editor at Large and Editor of Mizna Online, as they settle into their new faculty position as Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College’s English Department. “Over the past year, Mizna has played the critical role of providing space for our communities to gather in...
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