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"

The Radius of Arab American Writers and Mizna are excited to host Mizna+RAWIFest, RAWI’s bi-annual conference for 2023, in RAWI’s … Continue reading "RAWIfest 2023"

When we sit down and read a poem, what I believe is happening is that there’s this alchemical process between the words on the page — the imagination and the craft of the writer — and the subjectivity, the imagination, the personal history of the individual reader.

KEVORKIAN’S EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE COMES AT A PERIOD OF CRITICAL ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH AT MIZNA Mizna is pleased to announce the appointment … Continue reading "Mizna Appoints Ellina Kevorkian as Deputy Director"

Call for submissions, Mizna: The Cinema Issue, Winter 2023. The deadline has been extended to June 26, 2023. Mizna is … Continue reading "Call for Submissions: The Cinema Issue"

The 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair takes place March 8–11, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. Join Mizna for a long weekend … Continue reading "Mizna at AWP 2023"