November 4, 2021
Mizna 22.1 Foreword: On SWANA Literature + Art
Ruba ElMelik, Aram Kavoossi and Mizna Community Purchase your copy of Mizna 22.1 here. As Mizna asserts its identity beyond the frame of Arabness, we find ourselves gathering more as a collective of intersecting lives and experiences than as representatives of any fixed identity. While Mizna’s work has recently been categorized under the term Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), we recognize the inherent limitations of any term to fully hold us as we work toward cultural...
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July 9, 2016
An Interview From the Summer 2016 Issue of Mizna
Heba Y. Amin is Mizna’s new Curator of Visual Art. This interview was conducted by Lana Barkawi and published in the summer 2016 issue of Mizna (Volume 17.1), which also features a survey of her recent work. Subscribe now to get a copy. LB: We are living in an interesting cultural moment when it seems the mainstream Western media is rediscovering that politics and art have an important relationship. I’m thinking of the Gulf Labor Artist Coalition, the Guerrilla Girls, Black Lives...
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