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Join Mizna for a reading at the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival! Featuring Romaissaa Benzizoune, Ghinwa Jawhari, Nihal Mubarak and Kamelya Omayma Yussef.

When: October 23, 2022 at 12:30pm
Where: Dodge Poetry Festival, Newark Museum, Engelhard Court.
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ABOUT THE READERS

Romaissaa Benzizoune is from New York City and from Morocco. Her personal essays on race, religion, and politics have appeared in outlets like Buzzfeed, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue, and The New York Times. She also writes a Substack column called One Thing. You can find her on Twitter @romaissa_b.

Ghinwa Jawhari is a Lebanese American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her chapbook “BINT” was selected by Aria Aber for Radix Media’s Own Voices Chapbook Prize 2020. She is the founding editor of the Koukash Review, and a 2021 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her essays, poetry, and fiction appear in The Margins, Mizna, Catapult, Narrative, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.

Nihal Mubarak is a Sudanese-American poet, fiction and nonfiction writer and educator whose work centers themes of identity, place, and belonging. She has taught college English as well as poetry and fiction workshops, and approaches both her teaching and writing through the lenses of her blackness and Muslim faith.

Kamelya Omayma Youssef is an NYC-based writer from Dearborn, Michigan, with roots in Jibbayn and Shmistar, Lebanon. She is the author of A book with a hole in it, which received the Carolyn Bush Award at Wendy’s Subway and is forthcoming this October. Currently, she teaches poetry at the City College of New York, edits poetry manuscripts, and co-facilitates Habibi Futurism, a generative workshop for collective futurist imaginings.