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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
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