Mizna’s 20th Anniversary Benefit with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Mizna’s turning 20!

Join us to mark this special milestone. Enjoy a lively evening of community, a delicious meal, and show your support for Mizna’s work to create critical space for excellent Arab/SWANA film, literature, and art.

WHEN — Saturday, November 2, 2019
5:00 PM — Pre-Benefit Cocktail/Mocktail Mixer with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Palestinian poet Nathalie Handal
6:00 PM — Benefit + Dinner
LOCATION & PARKING — Hennepin Theatre Trust

As we celebrate two decades, we have the future on our minds. We are working to strengthen our financial foundation and make our work more sustainable. And we need you to show your support by investing in our future. If you would like to help make sure that Mizna’s work continues, please buy your tickets and join us for a wonderful night.

Presenting Sponsors Hennepin Theatre Trust | Holyland Restaurant
Additional Sponsors Universal Framing | NE Wellness | MPX Group

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NATHALIE HANDAL was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her recent poetry books include Life in a Country Album (fall 2019), praised by Claire Messud as a book that “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus”; the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, and the Arab American Book Award; Poet in Andalucía; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the author of eight plays, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica Magazine, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Nation, the Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from The Lannan Foundation, PEN Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, among others. Her work brings her to audiences globally. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.