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Recent Media Coverage


The Paris Review, n+1 and others win 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes
, NPR News, September 2023

Here are the winners of the 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes, Literary Hub, September 2023

2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winners Announced, Publishers Weekly, September 2023

Mizna, a St. Paul-based journal, wins $60,000 prize, Pioneer Press, September 2023

Arab arts organization Mizna celebrates Black SWANA experience in latest literary journal, KARE 11 News, April 2023

White House declares April as ‘Arab American Heritage Month’, KARE 11 News, April 2023

For the Community, by the Community: Mizna and Masrah, Arts Midwest, February 2023

REDEFINING CULTURE, EXPLORING EXPERIENCE, Dispatch MSP, February 2023

BIG SCREEN DIASPORA: MIZNA’S TWIN CITIES ARAB FILM FESTIVAL 2022, Dispatch MSP, September 2022

Twin Cities Arab Festival is a “home away from home” for Minnesota Arab community, MPR News, September 2022

Jocelyne Saab’s banned film Palestinian Women to stream online for free, Esquire Middle East, June 2021

Episode 165: Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices, The Queer Arabs Podcast, June 2021

10 Minnesota cultural organizations led by people of color get $500,000 each, May 2021

Walker Art Center rebuilds its relationship with Minnesota artists, Star Tribune, March 2021

Film Academy Allocates $2.5 Million in Grants to 96 Organizations, Variety, May 2020

Minneapolis art exhibit rejects ‘Middle East’ in favor of a more inclusive community, Star Tribune, December 2019

Literary Journal ‘Mizna’ Celebrates 20 Years Of Arab American Writing, NPR, November 2019

HISTORY IS NOT HERE: ART AND THE ARAB IMAGINARY, ArtAsiaPacific, 2019

‘Integrated vegetables’? Odd billboard on University Avenue is part of exhibition at downtown St. Paul museum, Twin Cities Pioneer Press, October 2019 

Kathryn Haddad and the Resistance, Mpls St. Paul Magazine, October 2019

A challenging trip through the ‘Arab Imaginary’ at St. Paul museum, Star Tribune, September 2019

Reasons to Love Minnesota No. 115: Mizna, Minnevangelist, September 2019

How Minnesota-based Mizna elevates Arab and Arab-American voices through storytelling, Local News Lab, July 2019

Warhol Foundation Names Fall 2018 Grants, ARTnews, January 2019

Arab Film Festival opens tonight — without four of its stars, MinnPost, September 2018 

New issue of Arab-American literary journal coincides with ‘Map of Salt and Stars’ reading, Twin Cities Pioneer Press, May 2018 

These three Middle East-born artists need to be on your cultural radar, Emirates Woman, March 2018

Egyptian movie ‘Mawlana’ to screen in US at Mizna Arab Film Festival, Egypt Independent, January 2018 

Mizna and the Walker Art Center present Film Series Reshaping Our World: Cinema Without Borders, The Walker, July 2017

Art Hounds: Show looks at old farmhouses and Ezekiel’s wheel, MPR News, September 2016 

Navigating the world – and home – through film at Minnesota film festivals, Twin Cities Daily Planet, November 2015 

Mizna: An ArtsLab Case Study, Arts Midwest, June 2014