The 2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair takes place February 7–10, 2024 in Kansas City, Oklahoma. Join Mizna for a long … Continue reading "Mizna at AWP 2024"

I have come to learn that skateboarding has always given me space to be with myself and it was not until I moved back to Palestine that I could try to shed the layers that had weighed me down.

The shopkeeper’s eyebrows were raised—not so much in disbelief, it was just the way he looked, the way God made him. People are dying and you’re here looking for a chocolate bar. You’re weird.

In 2024, the quarterly Mizna Film Series (MFS) returns to the Trylon Cinema with a program entitled Feminist Visions. Since … Continue reading "Mizna Film Series 2024: Feminist Visions–SWANA Cinema by and about Women"

My friend says, why do you rob the characters of their right to speak, why don’t you narrate Esmat’s real story, why don’t we know Layan Kayed’s story except through what you tell us, why doesn’t Nadir el-Saamry speak? I reply that these stories are not journalism—why does everything have to be so clear and detailed if a story is all we know about a person?

In light of recent events in Palestine—and more specifically, the Poetry Foundation’s censorship of pro-Palestinian voices and refusal to take a public stance on the genocidal … Continue reading "Press release: As Poetry Foundation Censors Pro-Palestine Voices, Mizna Uses Their Grant for Palestine"

Then we can freely break out a song of eternity on the hill of slaughter, until the ones who were killed say loudly: Here we returned, and this is the beginning of infinity.

Fast for GazaDecember 21, 2023: Sunrise to SunsetContinuing every Thursday until a permanent ceasefire is called We have had enough.This … Continue reading "Fast for Gaza"

O little light in me, don’t die, even if all the galaxies of the world close in.