by Meg Amad After receiving messages from members of her community expressing frustration at how they have been represented while … Continue reading "Media Tips for Palestine"

from womb to breath and one with oneness I be, from the river to the sea.

Please read the full call for submissions carefully, as our guidelines have changed. All submissions that do not adhere to … Continue reading "Call for Submissions: Mizna 25.1"

As the genocidal attack on Gaza has led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths and counting, we reaffirm our … Continue reading "Toward a Free Palestine: Resources to Act for and Learn About Palestine"

We write this as workers, students, farmers, parents – as Palestinians, as queer Palestinians. We write this not because our … Continue reading "A Liberatory Demand from Queers in Palestine"

Again, Fanon’s words come to mind: “The town belonging to the colonized people . . . the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how.”

An excellent guarantee against orthodoxy,” variation in the Arabic folkloric canon comes to form a mode of collective composition where authenticity stems not from the triumphant excavation of a uniform, authoritative text, but from the very presence of variants themselves.

Films selected to be part of the 2023 Arab Film Festival films are in the running to win juried awards … Continue reading "Announcing the 2023 Arab Film Festival Awards"

Mizna has been named as a recipient of the prestigious Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Founded in 2018, the prize’s purpose … Continue reading "Press Release: Mizna Journal Awarded Prestigious Whiting Literary Prize"