In January, Assistant Editor Aram Kavoossi sat down for a Zoom conversation with Lucia Kagramanyan, host of the bimonthly Panorama … Continue reading "A Spectrum of Cultural Memory—In Conversation with Lucia Kagramanyan of Panorama Yerevan"

Peace is for every brother who like an enemy besieges us and every brother who passes over our death to build his throne on our ruins.

every word in every language will sing their names & the places their names grew out of

Regretfully, I had to leave all my books behind. I couldn't bear to make the choice between my beloveds, so I left them all. Give them back. Give us back our beds. Give us back our offices. And give us back our books.

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?