In a literary landscape where institutional hegemony is rarely challenged, it is easy to forget that poetry as a practice … Continue reading "Uncrafted #3: An Interview with Farid Matuk"

This year has been a big year for books by SWANA authors. Big in the sense that we’ve seen an impressive volume of work published in English this year, but also in the sense that those works have received a lot of recognition in literary spaces, from individual readers and by way of major literary awards.

In 2026, Mizna celebrates the twentieth edition of our flagship program, the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. We mark this … Continue reading "Mizna Film Series 2026: Looking Forward, Looking Back"

Pleasure: something you take in in gasps, as everything falls apart around you, as everything bets on your nonexistence and hastens it, actually.

Don’t our children make pretty figures? Would you like them in short clips?

. . . no empire needs to endure beyond the decree of honeybees.

Submissions are closed. Please check back for our next call for submissions. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first … Continue reading "Call for Submissions: Mizna 27.1"

Return is inherently an experiment in phenomenology; to go or come back is a beckoning of how to arrive.

Had my mother taught me to weave grief, I would have made a sweater to shield me from this fear and you would have heard me singing as if I had never died.