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'''Mizna''' is a nonprofit arts organization |
'''Mizna''' is a nonprofit arts organization in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul, Minnesota]]. Founded in 1999, Mizna describes itself as "a critical platform for Arab and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) film, literature, and art."<ref>{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://mizna.org/about/|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Mizna|language=en-US}}</ref> Since 1999, Mizna has published a biannual literary journal, ''Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art''. Since 2003, Mizna has produced the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF), which became annual in 2013. Throughout its history, Mizna has organized and participated in a variety of arts and cultural programming, including visual art exhibitions, community workshops, drumming and Arabic classes, and local festivals such as Northern Spark. In 2020, Mizna was named Best Nonprofit by ''City Pages''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-30|title=Mizna featured in Citypages 'Best of the Twin Cities' Edition|url=https://mizna.org/mizna-news/mizna-featured-in-citypages-best-of-the-twin-cities-edition/|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Mizna|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Since 1999, Mizna has presented SWANA artists across a wide range of practices, including electronic musician Hello Psychaleppo, poets [[Suheir Hammad]] and [[Khaled Mattawa]], visual artist Fadlabi, filmmaker [[Annemarie Jacir]], and author [[Randa Jarrar]]. In 2003 Mizna presented the first Twin Cities Arab American Film Festival (TCAFF). The annual festival showcases films by Arab filmmakers from Southwest Asia and North Africa as well as the diaspora. |
Since 1999, Mizna has presented SWANA artists across a wide range of practices, including electronic musician Hello Psychaleppo, poets [[Suheir Hammad]] and [[Khaled Mattawa]], visual artist Fadlabi, filmmaker [[Annemarie Jacir]], and author [[Randa Jarrar]]. In 2003 Mizna presented the first Twin Cities Arab American Film Festival (TCAFF). The annual festival showcases films by Arab filmmakers from Southwest Asia and North Africa as well as the diaspora. |
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In September 2019, Mizna presented |
In September 2019, Mizna presented its first major visual arts exhibition, ''History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary'', featuring the work of 17 SWANA artists who had appeared in Mizna's literary and culture journal, including [[Monira al-Qadiri]], [[Emily Jacir]], [[Alaa Satir]], Fadlabi, and the artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary – Minnesota Museum of American Art|url=https://mmaa.org/historyisnothere/|access-date=2021-01-14|language=en-US}}</ref> Held at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, ''History Is Not Here'' was curated by [[Heba Y. Amin]], Maymanah Farhat, and Mizna's visual art curator, [[Heba Y. Amin]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ArtAsiaPacific: History Is Not Here Art And The Arab Imaginary|url=http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/HistoryIsNotHereArtAndTheArabImaginary|access-date=2021-01-14|website=artasiapacific.com}}</ref> Mizna received support from the Warhol Foundation for this exhibition. |
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== ''Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art'' == |
== ''Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art'' == |
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The first issue of ''Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art was published in January 1999 |
The first issue of ''Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art'' was published in January 1999. A biannual publication, ''Mizna'' has published 38 issues over 21 years as of 2021. |
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Over the years, more than 400 writers have been published in ''Mizna''. Contributors include [[Suheir Hammad]], [[Mahmoud Darwish]], [[Eileen Myles]], [[Naomi Shihab Nye]], [[Laila Lalami]], [[Hisham Matar]], Abdifatah Shafat, Sahar Mustafah, [[Najla Said]], [[Ismail Khalidi (writer)|Ismail Khalidi]], [[Matthew Shenoda]], [[Zeyn Joukhadar]], Ramla Bile, Hazem Fahmy, Joe Kadi, [[Khaled Mattawa]], Robert Farid Karimi and Omar Sakr. |
Over the years, more than 400 writers have been published in ''Mizna''. Contributors include [[Suheir Hammad]], [[Mahmoud Darwish]], [[Eileen Myles]], [[Naomi Shihab Nye]], [[Laila Lalami]], [[Hisham Matar]], Abdifatah Shafat, Sahar Mustafah, [[Najla Said]], [[Ismail Khalidi (writer)|Ismail Khalidi]], [[Matthew Shenoda]], [[Zeyn Joukhadar]], Ramla Bile, Hazem Fahmy, Joe Kadi, [[Khaled Mattawa]], Robert Farid Karimi, and Omar Sakr. |
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In 2019, ''Mizna'' celebrated its 20-year anniversary and published a special issue |
In 2019, ''Mizna'' celebrated its 20-year anniversary and published a special issue titled "Twenty Years" that included many authors who had been published in the first year of publication.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Literary Journal 'Mizna' Celebrates 20 Years Of Arab American Writing|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/11/03/775907344/literary-journal-mizna-celebrates-20-years-of-arab-american-writing|access-date=2021-01-14|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref> |
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In 2021, ''Mizna'' won the [[CLMP]] Firecracker Award for Magazines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Firecracker Awards: 2021 Firecracker Award Winners |url=https://www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/firecracker/ |website=CLMP |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> |
In 2021, ''Mizna'' won the [[CLMP]] Firecracker Award for Magazines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Firecracker Awards: 2021 Firecracker Award Winners |url=https://www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/firecracker/ |website=CLMP |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> |
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== Twin Cities Arab Film Festival == |
== Twin Cities Arab Film Festival == |
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Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) |
Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) launched in 2003, with the aim of showcasing the contemporary cinema of the Arab and Arab diasporic world's emerging, independent, and established filmmakers. A major goal of the TCAFF is to provide a space for films that reflect the Arab and Arab American community in all its complexity, not in the simplistic, stereotyped ways they are often represented in mainstream Western film and media. Each year, the TCAFF screens curated narrative and documentary features and a selection of curated short films. Mizna has presented many first screenings of films in Minnesota via TCAFF, and occasionally U.S. premieres. The film festival format includes post-viewing audience discussions led by invited film artists. From 2005 to 2013, the festival was held at The Heights theatre in [[Columbia Heights, Minnesota]]. Since 2014, it has been held at St Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis in collaboration with the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Society. In December 2020, Mizna presented the first fully online Arab Film Fest Collab (AFFC)<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Welcome to the Arab Film Fest Collab|url=https://arabfilmfestcollab.eventive.org/welcome|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-19|website=arabfilmfestcollab.eventive.org}}</ref> in collaboration with the [[Arab American National Museum|Arab American National Museum (AANM)]], the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI),<ref>{{Cite web|last=afmi|title=Home|url=http://arabfilminstitute.org/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI)|language=en-US}}</ref> and ArteEast.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-10-26|title=ArteEast {{!}} The global platform for Middle East arts|url=https://arteeast.org/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=arteeast.org|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== Funding & Awards == |
== Funding & Awards == |
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Mizna was named a Regional Cultural Treasure in 2021 by the Ford Foundation and McKnight Foundation and |
Mizna was named a Regional Cultural Treasure in 2021 by the Ford Foundation and McKnight Foundation and has received several cultural awards, including multiple Knight Arts Challenge Awards,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Announcing the winning ideas in the Knight Arts Challenge St. Paul|url=https://knightfoundation.org/articles/announcing-the-winning-ideas-in-the-knight-arts-challenge-st-paul/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Knight Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Knight Foundation names 29 winning ideas in 2017 St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge|url=https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-foundation-names-29-winning-ideas-in-2017-st-paul-knight-arts-challenge/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Knight Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> the Ordway's Sally Award for Social Impact (2018),<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-04|title=Ordway's Sally Awards honor achievements in arts|url=https://www.twincities.com/2018/09/04/ordway-sally-awards-honor-achievements-in-arts/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US}}</ref> and Best Nonprofit in ''City Pages''<nowiki/>'s Best of the Twin Cities (2020). Mizna's funders and supporters include the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], [[McKnight Foundation]], St. Paul Cultural STAR Program, [[National Endowment for the Arts]], Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Center for Arab American Philanthropy, National Network for Arab American Communities, and [[John S. and James L. Knight Foundation|Knight Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://mizna.org/about/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Mizna|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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| Founders | Kathryn Haddad and Saleh Abudayyeh |
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| Founded at | Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Headquarters | 2446 University Ave W #115 |
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Executive Director | Lana Salah Barkawi |
| Website | https://mizna.org |
Mizna is a nonprofit arts organization in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1999, Mizna describes itself as "a critical platform for Arab and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) film, literature, and art."[1] Since 1999, Mizna has published a biannual literary journal, Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art. Since 2003, Mizna has produced the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF), which became annual in 2013. Throughout its history, Mizna has organized and participated in a variety of arts and cultural programming, including visual art exhibitions, community workshops, drumming and Arabic classes, and local festivals such as Northern Spark. In 2020, Mizna was named Best Nonprofit by City Pages.[2]
History
Mizna (Arabic: مزنه, lit. 'cloud')[3] originated in 1996 as a section in a newsletter for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Minnesota, where Mizna co-founder Kathy Haddad served as president of the organization's local chapter. It initially contained news of interest to Arab Americans, but gradually began to include literary works. By 1998, Mizna was incorporated as a literary journal, co-edited by Haddad and Saleh Abudayyeh.[4] The first issue of Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art was published in January 1999.
Since 1999, Mizna has presented SWANA artists across a wide range of practices, including electronic musician Hello Psychaleppo, poets Suheir Hammad and Khaled Mattawa, visual artist Fadlabi, filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, and author Randa Jarrar. In 2003 Mizna presented the first Twin Cities Arab American Film Festival (TCAFF). The annual festival showcases films by Arab filmmakers from Southwest Asia and North Africa as well as the diaspora.
In September 2019, Mizna presented its first major visual arts exhibition, History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, featuring the work of 17 SWANA artists who had appeared in Mizna's literary and culture journal, including Monira al-Qadiri, Emily Jacir, Alaa Satir, Fadlabi, and the artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.[5] Held at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, History Is Not Here was curated by Heba Y. Amin, Maymanah Farhat, and Mizna's visual art curator, Heba Y. Amin.[6] Mizna received support from the Warhol Foundation for this exhibition.
Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art
The first issue of Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art was published in January 1999. A biannual publication, Mizna has published 38 issues over 21 years as of 2021.
Over the years, more than 400 writers have been published in Mizna. Contributors include Suheir Hammad, Mahmoud Darwish, Eileen Myles, Naomi Shihab Nye, Laila Lalami, Hisham Matar, Abdifatah Shafat, Sahar Mustafah, Najla Said, Ismail Khalidi, Matthew Shenoda, Zeyn Joukhadar, Ramla Bile, Hazem Fahmy, Joe Kadi, Khaled Mattawa, Robert Farid Karimi, and Omar Sakr.
In 2019, Mizna celebrated its 20-year anniversary and published a special issue titled "Twenty Years" that included many authors who had been published in the first year of publication.[7]
In 2021, Mizna won the CLMP Firecracker Award for Magazines.[8]
| Volume | Issue | Theme* | Publication Date | Contributors | Notes |
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| 1 | 1 | *Blank 'Theme' = unthemed | January 1999 | Joe Kadi, Saladdin Ahmed, Mohammed Almosa, Lisa Suheir Majaj, Nadia Higgins, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrãn, Kathryn Haddad, Nathalie Handal, Saleh Abudayyeh, and Adnan Shati. | |
| 1 | 2 | Spring/Summer 1999 | Pauline Kaldas, Abd al-Hayy Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, David Williams, Nahid Khan, Suheir Hammad, Annemarie Jacir, Ziad Shaker el-Jishi, and Fawzia Reda. | ||
| 1 | 3 | 1999 | Mohja Kahf, Elmaz Abinader, Sadida Athuallah, Anna Reckin, Lisa Gizzi, Nasser Yanbeiy, Najib Ghadbian, Susan Bassam Muaddi, Alia Yunis, and Cathy Camper. | ||
| 2 | 1 | 2000 | Rawi Hage, Dima Hilal, Ibtisam Barakat, Mark Riad Mikhael, Lorie Haddad, Shareef Riad, Jalaa’ Anwar Abdelwahab, Steven Salaita, Edith Dunn, and Hend Al-Mansour. | ||
| 2 | 2 | 2000 | Sidi Benzahra, Esam Abdel Aal, Joe Kadi, Issa Boullata, Kazim Ali, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrãn, Nahid Khan, Aida Hasan, Hassan Mekouar, Youssef Rakha, and Natalia Yatsukhina. | ||
| 2 | 3 | 2000 | Zahera Saed, Amani Elkassabani, Mark Hage, Rouane Itani, Stan West, Dunya Mikhail, Lisa Adwan, Kareem Aal, Yussef El Guindi, Graydon Kouri, and Jennifer Camper. | ||
| 3 | 2 | Fall 2001 | Susan Muaddi, D.H. Melhem, Pamela Nice, Chris Ellery, Eva Elias, Edith Dunn, Ibtisam Barakat, Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil, Rima Najjar Kapitan & Steven Salaita, Kazim Ali, Lubna Warawra, and Annemarie Jacir. Visual art by Lucien Samaha. | ||
| 3 | 3 | 2001 | Yussef El Guindi, David Williams, Corey Wade, Sinan Khatib, Khaled Mattawa, Cathy Camper, Layla El-Wafi, Mohja Kahf, Cherien Dabis, Dima Hilal, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán. Visual art by Emily Jacir. | ||
| 4 | 1 | Summer 2002 | Nabila Assaf, David Mura, Hannah Allam, Rasha Ghappour, Rawi Hage, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Ruba Sadi, Marwa Hassoun, Esam Aal, Kathryn Buck, Rae’d Abu-Ghazaleh, Shaw J. Dallal, A.Y. May, Zahie El Kouri, and Sarah Hope Zogby. Visual art by Yasser Aggour. | ||
| 4 | 2 | Winter 2002 | Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra, Jennifer Molina Balbuena, Ghassan Ghraizi, Sura Faraj, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Katherine Glover, Robyne Robison, Nadine Al-jijakli, Ahmed Tharwat, Edward Bok Lee, Deana El-Farouki Dueno, Leah Ida Harris, R. Abusahan, and Angele Ellis. Visual art by Marwan Sahmarani. | ||
| 5 | 1 | Summer 2003 | Amani Elkassabani, D.H. Melhem, Nasreen Mohamed and Juliana Pegues, Gregory Orfalea, Sachin B. Patel, Stephen Ajay, Evelyn Alsultany, Amir Rabiyah, Wade Savitt, Nahid Khan and Ibtisam S. Barakat. Visual art by Zena el-Khalil. | ||
| 5 | 2 | Winter 2003 | Sahar Kayyal, Naomi Shihab Nye, Assef Al-Jundi, Yussef El Guindi, Tami Mohamed Brown, Leila Darabi, Raff Ellis, Nadeen Al-Jijakli, Suheir Hammad, Amira Jarmakani, Pauline Kaldas, Morad Fareed, Cathy Camper, Laila Halaby, Sidi Benzahra, Noura Erakat and Joe Kadi. Visual art by Nida Sinnokrot. | ||
| 6 | 1 | Summer 2004 | Najla Said, Nathalie Handal, Junichi P. Semitsu, Ibtisam S. Barakat, John Asfour, Brian Cronwall, Ramzi Moufarej, Myung-Hee Kim, Joe Kadi, Mohja Kahf, Iron Sheik, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Raúl Gómez Jattin, Laila Shereen, Jennifer Min Hong, Naseer H. Aruri and Paul Barrows. Visual art by Aissa Deebi. | "In Memory of Edward W. Said (1935-2003)" | |
| 6 | 2 | Winter 2004 | R. Abusahan, Bushra Rehman, Laila Lalami, Ismail Khalidi, Mahmoud Kaabour, Barbara Bedway, Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian, D. Daryoush, Mariam Alsharif, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Gregory Orfalea, Shelley Ettinger, Anwar F. Accawi, Manel Saddique, David Williams, Ziana Qaiser-Raza and Alia Yunis. Visual art by Marya Kazoun. | ||
| 7 | 1 | Comedy and Satire | Summer 2005 | William Nour, D.H. Melhem, Bushra Rehman, Ahmed Tharwat, Jennifer Camper, Dean Obeidallah, Samir M. Nassar, Kathryn Haddad, Ibtisam Barakat, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Rosina Hassoun, Jason Makansi, Santiago Nasar, and Yussef El Guindi. Cover art by Nic Barbeln. | |
| 7 | 2 | Winter 2005 | Angele Ellis, Mahmoud Kaabour, Zeina Azzam Seikaly, Amy E. Levine, Kathryn Kysar, Paul Kaidy Barrows, Stephen Ajay, Rasha Salti, Pauline Kaldas, Bushra Azzouz, Ali Hazzah, Assef Al-Jundi, Hedy Habra, Shahé Mankerian, Tami Mohamed Brown, Rana Abdul-Aziz and Kay Hardy Campbell. Visual art by Bashar Azzouz. | ||
| 8 | 1 | Summer 2006 | D. Daryoush, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Brooke Anthony, Angie Chuang, Amani Elkassabani, Ismail Khalidi, Robert Booras, Philip Metres, R. Abusahan, Brian Cronwall, P.A. Pashibin, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, Habib Albi, Mazen Halabi, and Sophia Michelle Yohannes. Visual art by Hamdi Attia. | ||
| 8 | 2 | The Lebanon Issue | Winter 2006 | Fouzi Slisli, Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, John Asfour, Alia Yunis, Junichi P. Semitsu, Tamiko Beyer, David Williams, Rewa Zeinati Choueiri, H. Palmer Hall, Andy Young, Yahia Samir Lababidi, Amy E. Levine, Dima Hilal, Rhonda Wellner Chiodo, Mary Tabakow, William Nour, Faye George, Ahmed Tharwat, Claire Zoghb and Bushra Rehman. Visual art by Mazen Kerbaj, Zena el-Khalil, Randa Mirza, Jana Traboulsi. | |
| 9 | 1 | Summer 2007 | Cécile Oumhani, Nouri Gana, Philip Metres, Ibrahim N. Abusharif, Yahia Lababidi, Nadine Khalil, Rewa Zeinati Choueiri, D. Daryoush, Sarah Husain, Sophia Michelle Yohannes, Sherene Seikaly, and 2007 Latitudes Artists: Layla Dowlatshahi, Ismail Khalidi, Taous Khazem and Jen March. Visual art by Sharif Waked. | ||
| 9 | 2 | The Family Family | Winter 2007 | Taous Khazem, Pauline Kaldas, William Nour, Badria Jazairi, Kathryn Kysar, Lisa Adwan, John Asfour, R. Abusahan, Weam Namou-Yatooma, Hedy Habra, Laila Halaby, Mary Taddia, Jen March, Marian Haddad, Teresa Whitman, and Layla Dowlatshahi. Visual art by Athir Shayota. | |
| 10 | 1 | 2008 | Niebal Atiyeh, Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil, Yussef El Guindi, Assef Al-Jundi, Robert Caisley, Beverly Monestier, Gordon Hon, Lorena Duarte, Randy Holland, Mary Barghout, Catherine Coray, Wendy Brown-Baez, Mike Rollin, Nadine Sinno and Charlotte Albrecht. Visual arts by Bashir Makhoul. | ||
| 11 | 1 | Mahmoud Darwish Memorial | 2009 | Anya Achtenberg, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Richard Broderick, Mahmoud Darwish, May Hawas, Fady Joudah, Taous Claire Khazem, D.H. Melhem, Philip Metres, David Mura, and Gregory Orfalea. Visual art by Walid Raad. | |
| 12 | 1 | 2011 | Faisal Alahmad, Niebal Atiyeh, Mary Barghout, Susan Muaddi Darraj, D. Daryoush, Benjamin Arda Doty, Yussef El Guindi, David Jalajel, Nahid Khan, Bayan Khatib, Yahia Lababidi, Abdifatah Shafat, Mejdulene Shomali, and Helga Tawil-Souri. Visual art by Oraib Toukan. | ||
| 13 | 1 | Literature In Revolution | Summer 2012 | R. Abusahan, Maimouna Alammar, Andrea Assaf, John Asfour, Mary Barghout, Angele Ellis, Hedy Habra, Mohja Kahf, Remi Kanazi, Hassan Mekouar, Shady El Noshokaty, Dina Omar, Tasnim Qutait, Burt Ritchie, Khaldoun Samman, Leila Tayeb, and Andy Young. Visual art by Ahmed Basiony. | Guest edited by Mohammed A. Bamyeh |
| 13 | 2 | Winter 2012 | Andrea Assaf, Zeina Hashem Beck, Tami Mohamed Brown, Yahya Frederickson, Amir Hussain, Lameece Issaq, Jacob Kader, Lola Koundakjian, Yahia Lababidi, Christina Najla LaRose, Shahé Mankerian, Philip Metres, Amy Patrick Mossman, Sahar Mustafah, Glenn Shaheen, Nadine Sinno. Visual art by Ismail Al Rifai. | ||
| 14 | 1 | 2013 | Bilal Alkatout, Hala Alyan, Marguerite Dabaie, Shokry Eldaly, Yahya Frederickson, Catherine Fletcher, Layla Azmi Goushey, Yussef El Guindi, Hedy Habra, Joe Kadi, Ismail Khalidi, Shahé Mankerian, Shannon O’Neill, Joseph Rathgeber, Sagirah Shahid. Visual art by Osama Esid. | ||
| 15 | 1 | Eating the Other | Summer 2014 | R. Abusahan, Yasmine Anderson, Tim August, Mary Barghout, Dina El Dessouky, Lana Habash, Hedy Habra, Aida Hasan, Randa Jarrar, Hiba Krisht, Christina Najla LaRose, Shahé Mankerian, William Nour, Micaela Kaibni Raen, Michelle Ramadan, Joseph Rathgeber, Mejdulene B. Shomali, Donya Tag-El-Din, Priscilla Wathington. Visual art by Zineb Sedira and Raed Yassin. | Guest edited by Robert Farid Karimi and Khaldoun Samman |
| 15 | 2 | Selected Proceedings of the RAWI + Mizna Lit Gathering | Winter 2014 | Stephanie Abraham, Andrea Assaf, Hayan Charara, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Hedy Habra, Marilyn Hacker, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Amir Hussain, Randa Jarrar, Kim Jensen, Fady Joudah, Mohja Kahf, Farid Matuk, Philip Metres, Dina Omar, Deema K. Shehabi, Priscilla Wathington. Visual art by Marguerite Dabaie and Joe Namy. | |
| 16 | 1 | Summer 2015 | Rasha Abdulhadi, Reem Abu-Baker, Anwar F. Accawi, Hala Alyan, Joyce Aruri, Lauren Camp, Hasan Dudar, Angele Ellis, Hazem Fahmy, Majda Talal Gama, Layla Azmi Goushey, Amjad Hajyassin, Katheryn Kysar, Christina Najla LaRose, Zeyn Joukhadar, Ron Riekki, Mike Rollin, Donya Tag-El-Din, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Visual art by Samia Halaby. | ||
| 16 | 2 | Intersectionality | Winter 2015 | Elmaz Abinader, Suad Ali, Andrea Assaf, Maya Beck, Jennifer Camper, R. Benedito Ferrão, Jill Hawkins, Joe Kadi, Mohja Kahf, Robert Farid Karimi, Tammy Lakkis, and Sagirah Shahid. Visual art by Shady El Noshokaty. | Guest edited by Charlotte Karem Albrecht |
| 17 | 1 | Summer 2016 | Nagat Ali, Minatullah Amer Alobaidi, Mina Attar, Shebana Coelho, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Dina El Dessouky, Dhuha Dheyya, Suheir Hammad, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Eman Hassan, Ali Hazzah, Amir Hussain, Jazelle Jajeh, Michael Jewell, Ismail Khalidi, Tammy Lakkis, Zeyn Joukhadar, Zainab Mera, Isa Mohammed, Majid Naficy, Nicole Olweean, Heather H. Thomas, Gina Valdés, Kamelya Youssef, and Paul Zarou. Visual art by and interview with Heba Y. Amin. | ||
| 17 | 2 | The Environment Issue | Winter 2016 | Rasha Abdulhadi, Rizwan Akhtar, Suzan Boulad, Tami Mohamed Brown, Sharif Elmusa, Catherine Fletcher, Eman Hassan, Marwa Helal, Farah Kader, Joe Kadi, Dawud Mulla, Naomi Shihab Nye, Hamad Al-Rayes, Nida Sinnokrot, Moheb Soliman, and Kenny Strickland. Visual art by Monira Al Qadiri. | Guest Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan |
| 18 | 1 | Surviving | Summer 2017 | Hala Alyan, Niebal Atiyeh, Paul Kaidy Barrows, Maya Beck, Ramla Bile, Hayan Charara, Bernard Ferguson, Marion Gómez, Amjad Hajyassin, Noor Hashem, Tariq Luthun, Jess Rizkallah, Glenn Shaheen, Sagirah Shahid. Visual art from artists of the seven countries of the original Muslim Ban by Salwa Aleryani, Khaled Barakeh, Adelita Husni-Bey, Fadlabi, Ifrah Mansour, Anahita Razmi, and Walid Siti. | Guest edited by Moustafa Bayoumi |
| 18 | 2 | Winter 2017 | George Abraham, Cathy Camper, R.M.E., Mohja Kahf, Ismail Khalidi, Hassan Mekouar, Philip Metres, David Mura, Dina Omar, Michelle Ramadan, Omar Sakr, and Andrea Shaker. Visual art by Basel Abbas and Rouanne Abou-Rahme. | ||
| 19 | 1 | The Playing Field | Summer 2018 | Nabil Amra, Melika Belhaj, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Diane DeCillis, Hasan Dudar, Elisabeth Mehl Greene, Robert Farid Karimi, Taous Khazem, Laila Lalami, Junichi P. Semitsu, Mohammed Yabdri, and Zeyn Joukhadar. Visual art by Ala Younis. | Guest edited by Shireen Ahmed |
| 19 | 2 | The Palestine Issue | Winter 2018 | Hala Alyan, Najwan Darwish, Natalie Diaz, Hisham Matar, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nathalie Handal, George Abraham, Joe Sacco, Leila Abdelrazaq, Ahdaf Soueif, Eileen Myles, Marc Lamont Hill, Lina AlSharif, Janan Alexandra, Zaina Alsous, Zeina Azzam, Bryonn Bain, Jehan Bsesio, Kevin Coval, Summer Farah, Sahar Mustafah, Donal O'Kelly, Najla Said, Mandy Shunnarah, Lena Khalaaf Tuffaha, and Naomi Wallaca. Visual art by Yazan Khalili. | Guest edited by Ismail Khalidi |
| 20 | 1 | Twenty Years | Summer 2019 | Andrea Abi-Karam, Elmaz Abinader, Nour Al Ghraowi, Threa Almontaser, Aida Bardissi, Adam Benkato, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Leila Chatti, Hazem Fahmy, Hedy Habra, Kathryn Haddad, Annemarie Jacir, Joe Kadi, Mohja Kahf, Nahid Khan, Adele Ne Jame, Naomi Shihab Nye, Yara Omer, Yasmine Rukia, Samia Saliba, Therese Saliba, Sagirah Shahid, and Matthew Shenoda. Visual art by Alaa Satir. | |
| 21 | 1 | Queer + Trans Voices | Summer 2020 | Dina Abdulhadi, Rasha Abdulhadi, Kamee Abrahamian, Danielle Badra, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Michael Chang, Tarik Dobbs, Hazem Fahmy, Carissa Halston, Ghinwa Jawhari, Marlin M. Jenkins, Joe Kadi, Mena Kamel, Nour Kamel, Nihal Mubarak, Aiya Sakr, Omar Sakr, Trish Salah, Mejdulene B. Shomali, Fargo Tbakhi. Visual art by Cumaea Halim. | Guest edited by Zeyn Joukhadar |
| 21 | 2 | The Comix Issue | Winter 2021 | Tarek Abou Omar, Sarah Ahmed, Zainab Al-Shibani, Elias Bouderdaben, Ghazi Ghazal, Stephany Madi, Lena Merhej, Merieme Mesfioui, Aude Nasr, Hosam Omran, Sarah Saroufim, Enas Satir, Christian Sleiman, Stephanie Sleiman, and Helga Tawil-Souri. | Guest edited by Leila Abdelrazaq |
| 22 | 1 | Summer 2021 | Nofel, Andrea Abi-Karam, Philipe AbiYouness, leena aboutaleb, Jessica Abughattas, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Arwa Alsamarae, Yasmine Ameli, Sara Elkamel, Mariam Gomaa, Farah Hamade, Kaleem Hawa, Nour Kamel, Rania Mamoun, Yara Omer, Hassan Saby, Lubna Safi, Maya Salameh, Nardine Taleb, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian, and Sumeja Tulic. Visual art by Mohammed Melehi | Journal subheading changed from Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America to Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art | |
| 22 | 2 | The Experimental Issue | Winter 2021 | George Abraham, Lamia Abukhadra, Mays Albaik, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman, Darius Atefat-Peckman, Hajjar Baban, Doris Bittar, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Mohammed el-Kurd, Tracy Fuad, David Groulx, Farah Kader, Magdeline Maher, Khashayar Mohammadi, hana roz, Yasmine Rukia, Trish Salah, Glenn Shaheen, Nadia Shihab, Fargo Tbakhi, Mohamed Tonsy, Sarah Sophia Yanni, Omar Zahzah, Issam Zineh. Interview with Solmaz Sharif. Visual art by Michael Rakowitz. | Guest edited by Tarik Dobbs |
| 23 | 1 | Tribute to Etel Adnan | Summer 2022 | Andrea Abi-Karam, Ibtisam M. Abujad, janan alexandra, Kazim Ali, Ume Ali, Joumana Altallal, Omar Berrada, Youmna Chlala, emet ezell, Jai Hamid Bashir, Malvika Jolly, Nathalie Khankan, Nicole Olweean, Andrew Riad, Abu Bakr Sadiq, Hannah Sassoon, Sagirah Shahid, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Veera Sulaiman, and Mohamed Tonsy. Interview between Marie-Nour Héchaime, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Visual art by Etel Adnan. | |
| 23 | 2 | The Black SWANA Issue | Winter 2022 | Fahad Al-Amoudi, Salma Ali, Shams Alkamil, Ladin Awad, Lameese Badr, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Dina El Dessouky, Atheel Elmalik, k. eltinaé, Samah Fadil, Shawn Frazier, Myronn Hardy, Fatma Hassan, Asmaa Jama, Marlin M. Jenkins, Abigail Mengesha, Suzannah Mirghani, Nihal Mubarak, Umniya Najaer, Sihle Ntuli, Abu Bakr Sadiq, Sagirah Shaheed, Charif Shanahan, Najma Sharif, Faatimah Solomon, Vanessa Taylor, Qutouf Yahia, Thawrah Yousif. Interview with Charif Shanahan. Visual art by Kamala Ibrahim Ishag | Guest edited by Safia Elhillo |
| 24 | 1 | Myth and Memory | Forthcoming Summer 2023 |
Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) launched in 2003, with the aim of showcasing the contemporary cinema of the Arab and Arab diasporic world's emerging, independent, and established filmmakers. A major goal of the TCAFF is to provide a space for films that reflect the Arab and Arab American community in all its complexity, not in the simplistic, stereotyped ways they are often represented in mainstream Western film and media. Each year, the TCAFF screens curated narrative and documentary features and a selection of curated short films. Mizna has presented many first screenings of films in Minnesota via TCAFF, and occasionally U.S. premieres. The film festival format includes post-viewing audience discussions led by invited film artists. From 2005 to 2013, the festival was held at The Heights theatre in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Since 2014, it has been held at St Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis in collaboration with the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Society. In December 2020, Mizna presented the first fully online Arab Film Fest Collab (AFFC)[9] in collaboration with the Arab American National Museum (AANM), the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI),[10] and ArteEast.[11]
| Year | Film Lineup |
|---|---|
| 2022 | And Then They Burn the Sea, Majid Al-Remaihi (2021); Baba, Sam Arbor, Adam Ali (2021); Beirut: Eye of the Storm, Mai Masri (2021); Echolocation, Nadia Shihab (2021); El Houb, Shariff Nasr (2022); The Eyes That Never See, Dina Mimi (2021); Fadia's Tree, Sarah Beddington (2022); Farha, Darin J. Sallam (2022); Foragers, Jumana Manna (2022); The Gravedigger's Wife, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (2022); Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun (2021); Mariner of the Mountains, Karim Aïnouz (2021); May God Be With You, Cléo Cohen (2021); Memory Box, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige (2021); Miguel's War, Ellaine Raheb (2021); Mrs El Araby, May Ziade (2022); Neighbor Abdi, Douwe Dijkstra (2022); Night, Ahmad Saleh (2021); Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day?, Mohammad Shawky Hassan (2022); Space Women, Hadi Moussally (2021); The Stranger, Ameer Fakher Eldin (2021); T'embrasser sur le miel, Khalil Cherti (2021); Then Came Dark, Marie-Rose Osta (2021); Virtual Voice, Suzannah Mirghani (2021); Warsha, Dania Bdeir (2022); When Light is Displaced, Zaina Bseiso (2021); Will My Parents Come to See Me, Mo Harawe (2022); You Resemble Me, Dina Amer (2021) |
| 2021 | 200 Meters, Ameen Nayfah (2020); About Some Meaningless Events / De quelques évènements sans signification, Mostafa Derkaoui (1974); Ain't No Time for Women, Sarra El Abed (2019); Al Momia / The Night of Counting the Years, Shadi Abdel Salam (1969); Al Sit, Suzannah Mirghani (2020); Ana Wa Enti, Alexandra Muhawi-Ho (2020); As Above, So Below, Sarah Francis (2020); Bab Sebta / Ceuta’s Gate, Randa Maroufi (2019); Bare Bones, Meryem Lahlou (2020); Before the Dying of the Light, Ali Essafi (2020); Bellydance Vogue, Hadi Moussally (2020); Bethlehem 2001, Ibrahim Handal (2020); Clebs / Mutts, Halima Ouardiri (2019); Dearborn's "Beirut House", Malak Wazne-Fadlallah (2021); Deliverance: A Women's Revolt, Ziad Haggag (2021); The Departure, Saïd Hamich Benlarbi (2020); Dinner Party, Jessica Abughattas (2020); Don't Forget the Water, Christina Hajjar (2021); Drought, Remi Itani (2020); Galb' Echaouf, Abdessamad El Montassir (2020); Gaza Mon Amour, Arab and Tarzan Nasser (2020); The Girls Who Burned the Night, Sara Mesfer (2019); Give Up the Ghost, Zain Duraie (2019); A Handful of Dates, Hashim Hassan (2020); How My Grandmother Became a Chair, Nicolas Fattouh (2020); I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face, Sameh Alaa (2020); I Say Dust, Darine Hotait (2015); Life On the Horn, Mo Harawe (2020); Mara, Mohamed Khalil Hita (2018); Mariam, Reem Jubran (2020); Moonscape, Mona Benyamin (2020); Moss Agate, Sélim Mourad (2020); Now, If You Look At the Sky, Maissa Maatouk (2021); An Open Rose / Une rose ouverte / وردة, Ghassan Salhab (2019); Our Memory Belongs to Us / لنا ذاكرتنا, Rami Farah (2021); Palestine Will Be Free: A Dearborn Candlelight Vigil, Malak Wazne-Fadlallah (2021); The Recipe, Zayd Alkatout (2021); The Red Mountain, Kamel Harb (2020); Rhythm of Forgetting, Ginou Choueiri (2020); The Sailor, Lily Ekimian, Ahmed T. Ragheb (2021); Selahy/My Weapon, Alaa Zabara (2020); Sirocco, Hisham Bizri (2012); Souad / سعاد, Ayten Amin (2021); Sukar, Ilias Dupuis El Faris (2019); Tallahassee, Darine Hotait (2021); The Tower, Mats Grorud (2021); Trances, Ahmed El Maanouni (1981); Ultimate Ink, Yazid El Kadiri (2020); Walkout 1, Reman Sadani (2020); Zanka Contact, Ismaël El Iraki (2020) |
| 2020 | Ten Days Before the Wedding ١٠ أيام قبل الزفة, Amr Gamal (2018); 1982 ١٩٨٢, Oualid Mouaness (2019); Ablution, Omar Al Dakkheel (2018); Abou Leila, Amin Sidi-Boumédiène (2019); Adnan, Steven Chatterton, Mark Arrigo (2020); Afsan's Long Day, Naeem Mohaiemen (2014); Ahmed's Song, Foued Mansour (2018); Al Dhareeh الضريح, Eltayeb Mahdi (1977); Al Mahatta المحطة, Eltayeb Mahdi (1989); AlNajma, Gilbert Karam (2020); Barzakh, Karina Dandashi (2020); Barzakh برزخ, Hussein Hossam (2018); Between Heaven and Earth بين الجنة والأرض, Najwa Najjar (2019); A Breeze of Tango, Maya Tabet Noun (2019); Cactus Flower, Hala Elkoussy (2017); Dance with a Bullet, Dhyaa Khalid Joda (2020); Domestic Tourism II, Maha Maamoun (2009); Don't Touch Me Tomatoes & Chachacha, Lara Baladi (2013); The Dream المنام, Mohamad Malas (1987); Frayed Roots, Nay Tabbara (2020); Habib, John Rizkallah (2020); Hand-Me-Downs, Yto Barrada (2011); Henet Ward حنة ورد, Morad Mostafa (2020); Holding Fire, Hana Elias (2019); I'm Not Here لست هنا, Yamen Abd Al Nour (2019); Immigrant At Home, Sufian Abulohom (2020); In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain, Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind (2015); In Vitro, Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind (2019); INAATE/SE/ Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil (2016); Jamel جمل, Ibrahim Shaddad (1988); Keyword Searches for Dust, Malak Helmy (2009); Khartoum Offside اوفسايد الخرطوم, Marwa Zein (2019); Letter to a Friend, Emily Jacir (2019); A Letter to My Friend in France رسالة إلى صديقي في فرنسا, Akram Elbezzawy (2020); Lift Like a Girl عاش يا كابتن, Mayye Zayed (2020); Magic Carpet Land, Marianne Fahmy (2020); Malcolm X and the Sudanese, Hisham Aidi (2020); Maradona's Legs إجرين مارادونا, Firas Khoury (2019); Miss الصغيرة, Amira Géhanne Khalfallah 2019); Mondial 2010, Roy Dib (2014); Moonship Dispatch برقية من القمر, Barakunan, Ramzi Hibri, Sarah Huneidi (2019); Most Fabulous Place, Maha Maamoun (2008); Nation Estate Larissa Sansour, (2012); Once Upon a Time in Beirut كان يا مكان، بيروت, Jocelyne Saab (1995); The Present الهدية, Farah Nabulsi (2020); Quneitara 74 قنيطرة ٧٤, Mohamad Malas (1974); The Red Fish الحوتة الحمرا, Bassem Ben Brahim (2019); The Return of Osiris عودة أوزيريس, Essa Grayeb (2019); Revolution From Afar ثورة من بعيد, Bentley Brown (2020); The Room, Latifa Said (2019); Rosa, Suha Araj (2020); The Seven Villages, Farah Abou Kharroub (2020); Sh'hab, Amal Al-Muftah (2018); Short Shorts, Karina Dandashi (2018); Son of a Dancer ابن الرقاصة, Georges Hazim (2018); A Space Exodus, Larissa Sansour (2008); Syrialism, Dalia Al Kury (2020); Tabbouleh & Pie, Ja'far 'Abd al-Hamid (2019); Talking About Trees الحديث عن الأشجار, Suhaib Gasmelbari (2019); Three Centimeters, Lara Zeidan (2018); Ubuntu, Aqsa Altaf (2019); Under the Safe Sky, Ali Kadhum (2019); The Unknown Sky, Alaa Eddine Aljem (2019); Unlocking the Doors of Cinema, Nezar Andary (2019); The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets, Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys (2017); Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur, Suliman Elnour (1978); We Are From There نحن من هناك, Wissam Tanios (2020); We're Back!, Moheb Soliman (2019); What Things May Come, Marianne Fahmy (2019); What's Left of Home شو بقى من البيت, Antoine Maksoudian (2019); You Will Die at Twenty, Amjad Abu Alala (2019); Youth, Lula Ali Ismail (2019); Zeinab on the Scooter, Dima El-Horr (2019) |
| 2019 | The Story of Rana & Mahdi شباب في ديربورن, Andy Madeleine (2019); Two Truths and a Lie, Sarah Abdel-Jelil (2016); Erased,_Ascent of the Invisible طرس، رحلة الصعود إلى المرئي, Ghassan Halwani (2018); It Must Be Heaven, Elia Suleiman (2019); Dachra دشرة, Abdelhamid Bouchnak (2018); Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine, Rosalind Nashashibi (2018); Electrical Gaza, Rosalind Nashashibi (2015); This Quality, Rosalind Nashashibi (2010); Hreash House, Rosalind Nashashibi (2004); The State of Things, Rosalind Nashashibi (2000); Cycle of Apples دورة التفاح, Maha Al-Saati (2019); Moderately Satisfied استبيان, Hind Anabtawi (2018); Nocturnal Deconstruction طلعت الشمس, Laura El-Alam (2018); Mum لم أعد أكتم, Mariam Al Awadhi (2018); Brothers, Mariam Al Awadhi (2018); Jebel Banat جبل بنات, Sharine Atif (2018); When Arabs Danced, Jawad Rhalib (2018); Wajd – Songs of Separation وجد, Amar Chebib (2018); EXT. Night ليل/خارجي, Ahmad Abdalla (2018) |
| 2018 | Capernaum كفرناحوم, Nadine Labaki (2018); 1948: Creation and Catastrophe, Andy Trimlett & Ahlam Muhtaseb (2017); And An Image Was Born, Firas Khoury (2017); Naila and the Uprising, Julia Bacha (2018); Separation الفراق, Hakar Abdulqader (2017); Sheikh Jackson, Amr Salama (2017); Looking For Oum Kulthum, Shirin Neshat (2017); Rupture رابتشر, Yassmina Karajah (2017); My Favorite Fabric, Gaya Jiji (2018); 1001 Days, Aisha Al-Jaidah (2017); Memory of a Fish ذاكرة سمكة, Yousef Salhi (2017); Unspoken, Yousef Salhi (2017); Ouroboros, Basma Alsharif (2017); A Certain Nasser, Badih Massaad and Antoine Waked (2017); Where To? إلى أين؟, Georges Nasser (1957); One Day in Aleppo, Ali Alibrahim (2017); Taste of Cement, Ziad Kalthoum (2017); Kiss Me Not بلاش تبوسني, Ahmed Amer (2017); Foreign Body, Raja Amari (2016); Off the Grid, Sarah Hassan (2018); Wild Relatives حب بري, Jumana Manna (2018); Like Salt, Darine Hotait (2018); our home is asleep but there is a rumble, Noelle Awadallah (2018); an uncapitalized watan, Leila Awadallah and Noelle Awadallah (2017); Drive, Sara Gama (2017); I Am No Bird, Andrew Cagle (2017); on bayt, Andrea Shaker (2018); One Minute, Dina Naser (2015); Writing On Snow كتابة على الثلج, Rashid Masharawi (2017); Bonbone بونبونة, Rakan Mayasi (2017); Wajib واجب, Annemarie Jacir (2017) |
| 2017 | Tramontane (Rabih), Vatche Boulghourjian (2016); The Dream Still Is, Zachary Green (2017); The Barbershop, Zaid Alshammaa (2014); That's What We Hear on the News, Jamal Ali (2014); The Actor, Adnan Shati (2015); Stealth Pathogen, Nathan Fisher (2015); The Fifty Generation, Ali Alshammaa (2014); Our Iraq, Jamal Ali and Amel Al-Sammarraie (2016); Alice's Story, Alice with Nathan Fisher (2012); Naser's Story, Naser Al Samarai (2012); Gaza Surf Club, Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine (2016); Villagers, Nidal Badarny (2015); Abdullah, Humaid Alsuwaidi (2015); Photo, Sawsan Al-Areeqe (2014); Withered Green, Mohammed Hammad (2016); Burning Hope, Lofti Achour (2016); The Occupation of the American Mind, Loretta Alper, Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp, and Jason Young (2016); Nowhere to Hide, Zaradasht Ahmed (2016); Caravan, Suzannah Mirghani (2016); Go Home, Jihane Chouaib (2015); Hide Your Metal, Yasmine Mustafa (2017); Les Petits Chats, Sherif Nakhla (2015); The Preacher (Mawlana), Magdy Ahmed Ali (2016); Much Loved, Nabil Ayouch (2015); Karouma, Boubaker Boukhari (2016); Lilou, Rawan Rahim (2015); Ayny, Ahmed Saleh (2016); Yaman, Amer Albarzawi (2016); Battalion to My Beat, Eimi Imanishi (2016); Jareedy, Mohamed Hisham (2015); Five Boys and a Wheel, Said Zagha (2016); Those Who Remain, Eliane Raheb (2017); We Have Never Been Kids, Mahmood Soliman (2016); Asmahan, Hisham Bizri (2005); Beneath the Wide Wide Heaven, Hisham Bizri (2016); The Wanderer (Shooq), Hisham Bizri (2017); The Candle, Nasser Samara (2017); Halal Love (And Sex), Assad Fouladkar (2015); The War Show, Obaidah Zytoon and Andreas Møl Dalsgaard (2016); Gaza, a Gaping Wound, Anne Paq and Ala Qandil (2016); The Pianist of Yarmouk, Vikram Ahluwalia (2017); The Dream المنام, Mohamad Malas (1987); Listen (Ismaii), Philippe Aractingi (2016); Between a Garden and the Sea, Ariane Lorrain (2016); Stitching Palestine, Carol Mansour (2017); The Parrot, Amjad Al-Rasheed and Darin Sallam (2016); Solitaire (Mahbas), Sophie Boutros (2016) |
| 2016 | As I Open My Eyes, Leila Bouzid (2015); Yallah! Underground, Farid Eslam (2015); Speed Sisters, Amber Fares (2015); Trip Along Exodus, Hind Shoufani (2015); In The Last Days of the City / آخر ايام المدينة, Tamer El Said (2016); Mariam, Faiza Ambah (2016); Wintry Spring / ربيع شتوي, Mohammed Kamal (2015); Under the Hat, Amal Al-Agroobi (2016); Taste of Life, Medoo Ali (2014); Iraqi Superman, Sajjad Abbas (2014); Dark to Dark, Omid Khalid (2015); The Actor, Adnan Shati (2015); Stealth Pathogen, Nathan Fisher (2015); Iraq Darkly, Jamal Ali (2015); East by Midwest, Inam Alaseel et. al (2016); The Blind Orchestra / جوق العميين, Mohamed Mouftakir (2014); Queens of Syria / ملكات سورية, Yasmin Fedda (2014); 3000 Nights / ٣٠٠٠ ليلة, Mai Masri (2015); Dégradé, Arab and Tarzan Nasser (2015); Waves ‘98 / موج ٩٨, Ely Dagher (2015); Checks and Balances / ضدّ القوّى, Malek Bensmaïl (2015); What About Tomorrow? / بالنسبة لبكرا شو؟ Ziad Rahbani (1978); Before the Summer Crowds / قبل زمحة الصيف, Mohamed Khan (2015) |
| 2015 | Love, Theft, and Other Entanglements, Muayad Alayan (2015); Beats of the Antonov, hajooj kuka (2014); Single, Married, Divorced, Elie Khalife (2015); Pioneer High, Suha Araj (2015); The Wanted 18, Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan (2014); Free Range, Bassem Bréche (2014); El Ott, Ibrahim El-Batout (2014); Rate Me, Fyzal Boulifa (2015); Solomon's Stone, Ramzi Maqdisi (2015); Growing Home, Faisal Attrache (2015); Disgraced, Andrea Shaker (2015); The Last of Little Syria, Hasan Dudar (2015); Ave Maria, Basil Khalil (2015); Our Terrible Country, Mohammad Ali Atassi (2014); Cairo Time, Amir Ramses (2014); Mother of the Unborn, Nadine Salib (2014); Omnia Amna Alnowais (2015); I Say Dust, Darine Hatait (2015); Eyes of a Thief, Najwa Najjar (2014); Condom Lead, Arab and Tarzan Nasser (2013); The Man from Oran, Lyes Salem (2014); The BarbershopZaid Alshammaa (2014); That's What We Hear On the News, Jamal Ali; The Iraqi Dream, Amel Al-Sammarraie; Travel Documents, Mahmoud Ibrahim and Nathan Fisher; Torn Between, Sarah Kanan; The Fifty Generation, Ali Alshammaa; Gift of my Father, Salam Salman (2014); Kingdom of Garbage, Yasir Kareem (2014); A Nation Without a Homeland, Wareth Kwaish (2014); Pirates of Sale, Rosa Rogers and Merieme Addou (2014); Made of Clay, Fayssal Bin Sahli (2015); Ball of Hope, Mayar Nouri (2014); Narrow Frame of Midnight, Tala Hadid (2014); |
| 2014 | Rock the Casbah, Laïla Marrakchi (2013); Professor, Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud (2012); The Cup Reader, Suha Araj (2013); When Monaliza Smiled, Fadi Haddad (2012); Challat of Tunis, Kaouther Ben Hania (2014); Ladder to Damascus, Mohamed Malas (2013); Troubled Waters (Akar), Toufic Khreich (2013); My Love Awaits Me by the Sea, Mais Darwazah (2013); Though I Know the River is Dry, Omar Robert Hamilton (2013); Mars at Sunrise, Jessica Habie (2014); Sleepless Nights, Eliane Raheb (2012); Om Amira, Naji Ismail (2013); Scheherazade's Diary, Naji Ismail (2013); A Hole in the Sky, Àlex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi (2013); Karama Has No Walls, Sara Ishaq (2012); Champ of the Camp, Mahmoud Kaabour (2013); Rags and Tatters, Ahmad Abdalla (2013); Amal's Garden, Nadia Shihab (2012); Factory Girl, Mohamed Khan (2013); Excuse My French, Amr Salama (2014); |
| 2013 | Okay, Enough, Goodbye, Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia (2010); The People and the Olive, Aaron Dennis (2012); Home, Not Home, Andrea Shaker (2012); The Last Friday, Yahya Al-Abdallah (2011); This is London, Mohammed Rashed BuAli (2012); Fidaï, Damien Ounouri (2012); Zabana!, Saïd Ould-Khelifa (2012); Farewell Exile, Lamia Alami (2011); As If We Were Catching a Cobra, Hala Abdalla (2012); We Want to Know, Carol Mansour (2012); The Lady With the Grapes, Mike Malajalian (2012); Starring Julia, Elie Fahed (2012); Abu Rami, Sabah Haider (2012); Detroit Unleaded, Rola Nashef (2012); In Search of "Oil and Sand", Philippe Dib, Wael Omar (2012); Sirocco, Hisham Bizri (2012); Horses of God, Nabil Ayouch (2012); The Suffering Grasses, Iara Lee (2012); Cafe Regular, Cairo, Ritesh Batra (2011); Words of Witness, Mai Iskander (2012); A Resident of the City, Adham El Sherif (2011); Winter of Discontent, Ibrahim El Batout (2011) |
| 2011 | 12 Angry Lebanese, Zeina Daccache (2009); 18 Days, Sherif Arafa, Kamla Abou Zikri, Marwan Hamed, Mohamed Ali, Sherif El Bendari, Khaled Marei, Mariam Abou Ouf, Ahmad Abdallah, Yousry Nasrallah, Ahmad Alaa (2011); Algeria, Images of a Flight, Jérôme Laffont (2010); Allahu Akbar, Usama Alshaibi (2007); Beirut My Heart, Sabah Haider (2011); City of Life, Ali F. Mostafa (2009); Envy the Dead/Hassad Al Möta, Isa Swaim (2011); Fiasco, Nadia Hamzeh (2009); Gaza Shield, Tania Khalaf (2010); Gaza-Strophe, Samir abdallah & Khéridine Mabrouk (2011); Teta, Alf Marra (Grandma a Thousand Times), Mahmoud Kaabour (2010); Hawi, Ibrahim El-Batout (2010); Here Comes the Rain, Bahij Hojeij (2010); If Fog had Roots/Les racines du brouillard, Dounia Bovet-Wolteche (2009); Iraq, Finally, Tarik Rasouli (2010); Man Without a Cellphone, Sameh Zoabi (2010); Mish Mush, Amar Chebib (2010); My Name is Mohammed, Yahya Allaak (2010); Quarter Magic, Jacob Kader (2010); Scheharazade Tell Me a Story, Yousry Nasrallah (2009); Stray Bullet, Georges Hachem (2010); Taqwacore, Omar Majeed (2009); Teta, Merva Faddoul (2011); The Koran: Back to the Origins of the Book, Bruno Ulmer (2010); The Time that Remains, Elia Suleiman (2009); This Way Up, Georgi Lazarevski (2007); To Rest In Peace, Fawaz Al-Matrouk (2010); Triumph67, Dan Tanz (2010); Voices from the Revolution: My Love for You, Egypt, Increases by the Day, Heba Amin (2011); |
| 2010 | Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander (2009); Les Barons, Nabil Ben Yadir (2009); Heat Harara, Lodewijk Crijns (2007); Pomegranates and Myyrh, Najwa Najjar (2008); Laila's Birthday, Rashid Masharawi (2008); City of Brass, Hisham Bizri (2002); Vertices, Hisham Bizri (2003); Song for the Deaf Ear, Hisham Bizri (2008); Lesh Sabreen?, Muayad Mousa Alayan (2008); My Heart Beats Only for Her, Mohamed Soueid (2009); 7915 Km, Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2008); We Will Live to See These Things, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (2007); Tea on the Axis of Evil, Jean Marie Offenbacher (2009); Remnants of a War, Jawad Metni (2009); The Sons of Eilaboun, Hisham Zreiq (2008); Henna, Saleh Karama, (2008); Absence, Mohammed Rashed Bu-Ali (2008); The Good Omen, Mohammed R. Bu-Ali (2009); Gaza on the Air, Samir Abdallah (2009); Once Upon a Piano, Fadi G. Haddad (2007); Hold On My Glamorous, Shirin Abu Shaqra (2009); Ein Shams, Ibrahim El Batout (2008); Hymen, Hisham Saqr (2009) |
| 2008 | 33 Days, Mai Masri (2007); Adieu Meres, Mohamed Ismail (2007); Arab Cinema: The State of Things, Nasser-Eddine Benalia (2006); Detroit Unleaded, Rola Nashef (2007); El Ayel: A Muslim Childhood, Moumen Smihi (2006); I Love Hip Hop in Morocco, Josh Asen and Jennifer Needleman (2007); Jerusalem, The East Side Story, Mohammed Alatar (2008); A Jihad for Love, Parvez Sharma (2007); Meeting Resistance, Steve Connors and Molly Bingham (2007); Nosh-e Jan, Gazelle Samizay (2008); A Palestinian Mural, Norma Shiheiber (2007); The Path of Most Resistance, Gareth Keogh (2008); Recognized, Ori Kleiner (2007); Slingshot Hip Hop, Jackie Reem Salloum (2008); Tunnel Trade, Leila El-Haddad and Saeed Taji Farouky (2007); Woman is Courage, Amine Rachedi (2003) |
| 2007 | Ard El-Nisaa'a, Jean Chamoun (2003); Away from Home, Qais il Zobaidi (1969); Bagdad Rap, Arturo Cisneros (2004); Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation, Simone Bitton (2004); The Devil Came on Horseback, Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern (2007); Waiting for Ben Gurion, Norma Marcos (2006); Ertijal, Raed Andoni (2005); Goal Dreams, Maya Sanbar & Jeffrey Saunders (2005); Heaven's Doors', Imad & Swel Noury (2006); Heavy Metal Drummer, Toby MacDonald and Luke Morris (2005); Hot House, Shimon Dotan (2006); Iraq, the Song of the Missing Men, Layth Abdulamir (2005); I See the Stars at Noon, Saeed Taji Farouky (2004); Leila Khaled, Hijacker, Lina Makboul (2005); Littoral, Wadji Mouawad (2004); My Father, Pamela Ghanimeh (2006); Palestine Blues, Nida Sinnokrot (2005); The Ball of Wool, Fatma Zohra Zamoum (2005); Rain is Falling, Holger Ernst (2004); Sabah El-Foll, Sherif El Bendary (2006); State Terrorism, Bassam Haddad (2006); Ania's Tea, Said Ould Khelifa (2004); T'sawar, Nejib Belkadhi (2005) |
| 2005 | Bahlam Beek, Assia Lakhlif (2003); In Casablanca Angels Don't Fly, Mohamed Asli (2003); Muhammed: The Last Prophet, Richard Rich (2004); They Were Here, Ammar Al-Beik (2000); Clapper, Ammar Al-Beik (2003); Visa, Ibrahim Letaief (2004); Just Got Married, Hussam Chaddat (2005); Prêt-à-Porter Imm Ali, Dima el-Horr (2001); Frontiers of Dreams and Fears, Mai Masri (2001); Asmahan, Hisham Bizri (2005); We Loved Each Other So Much, Jack Janssen (2003); On a Monday, Tamer el-Said (2004); House of Flesh, Rami Abdul-Jabbar (2005); Balcon Atlantico, Mohamed Chrif Tribak & Hicham Fallah (2004); Hamda, Fahd Chebbi (2004); Booba, Emad Ahmed (2004); Being Osama, Mahmoud Kabour & Tim Schwab (2004); Nazrah, Farah Nousheen (2003); Clay Dolls, Nouri Bouzid (2003); My Father Atop the Tree, Hussein Kamal (1969); Threads, Hakim Belabbes (2003); Kings and Extras, Azza El-Hassan (2004); The Guard's Daughter, Hanri Barakat (1968); The Siren, Zakaria Ibrahim (2005); no news, Bushra Azzouz (2002); Where the Birds Fly, Sama Alshaibi (2005); Memory in Detention, Jillali Ferhati (2004); Days and Nights, Henri Antoine Barakat (1955); Lemonade, Hicham Kayed (2004); A Stone's Throw Away, Line Halvorsen (2003); Fama... Bontoula Bela Mag, Dalila Ennadre (2004); Where is Iraq, Baz Shamoun (2004); Safar Barlek, Henri Antoine Barakat (1966); Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, Mahmoud Al Massad (2004); Until When, Dahna Abourahme (2004); Face A Face B, Rabih Mroué (2003); Private, Saverio Costanzo (2004) |
| 2004 | Sleepless Nights, Hani Khalifa (2003); Bedwin Hacker, Nadia El Fani (2003); Adrift on the Nile, Hussein Kamal (1971); How Beautiful is the Sea, Sabine El Chamaa (2003); Diary of an Art Competition (Under Curfew), Omar al Qattan (2002); Distance from the Sun, Eyad Zahra (2003); The Way Out, Samia Meskaldji (2001); Human Being, Ibrahim Shaddad (1994); 11' 09" 01, Youssef Chahine (2003); My Lost Home, Kamal El Mahouti (2001); Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said, Emmanuel Hamon (2001); 500 Dunam on the Moon, Rachel Leah Jones (2002); Rana's Wedding: Jerusalem, Another Day, Hany Abu-Assad (2002); like twenty impossibles, Annemarie Jacir (2003); A Man in our House, Henri Barakat (1961); Khmissa, Molka Mahdaoui (2000); The Bookstore, Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba (2002); Driving an Arab Street, Arthur Hurley (2002); Everything is Gonna be Alright, Tamer Ezzat (2003); Independent Media in a Time of War, Brenda Miller, Hudson Mohawk (2003); Hopefully for the Best, Raed Helou (2004) |
| 2003 | So Much I Want to Say, Mona Hatoum (1983); Divine Intervention, Elias Suleiman (2002); The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hang, Walid Raad (1996); Mute Cinema, Meyar Al-Roumi (2001); La Porte du Sud, Brahim Bachiri (1995); Alone with War, Danielle Arbid (2000); The Others are the Others, Mounir Fatmi (2003); Distant Lives, Rehab Al Katheery (2001); The Satellite Shooter, Annemarie Jacir (2001); Red is the Colour of My Eye, Nesrine Khodr (2000); The Lost Horizon, Laïla Marrakchi (2000); On the Rock of Elsewhere, Madji El Omari (2000); Mean Time in Beirut, Merdad Hage (2002); Whispers, Hakim Belabbes (1999); Boujad: A Nest in the Heat, Hakim Belabbes (1992); Everything and Nothing, Jayce Salloum (2001); Crossing Kalandia, Sobhi al-Zobaidi (2002); Laila, Ruba Nadda (1999); The Cleaner, Mona Khamis (2001); Measure of Distance, Mona Hatoum (1988); Bint El-Yakoute, Brahim Bachiri (1995); Al Alali, Sheikha Nader Al Qubaisi (2002); Blue, Azza Al Zarouni (2001); A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbés, Belkacem Hadjadj (2000); Arabesque, Mounir Fatmi (1997); Boutros Al-Armenian, Jamelie Hassan (1997); Introduction to the End of an Argument, Jayce Salloum, Elias Suleiman (1990); How I Love You, Akram Zaatari (2001); Diary of a Male Whore, Tawfik Abu Wael (2001); Shameless Transmission of Desired Transformation Per Day, Mahmoud Hojeij (2000); Her + Him = Van LEO 2001, Akram Zaatari (2001); Hostage: The Bachar Tapes, Walid Raad (2001); Jenin Jenin, Mohamad Bakri (2002) |
Funding & Awards
Mizna was named a Regional Cultural Treasure in 2021 by the Ford Foundation and McKnight Foundation and has received several cultural awards, including multiple Knight Arts Challenge Awards,[12][13] the Ordway's Sally Award for Social Impact (2018),[14] and Best Nonprofit in City Pages's Best of the Twin Cities (2020). Mizna's funders and supporters include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, McKnight Foundation, St. Paul Cultural STAR Program, National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Center for Arab American Philanthropy, National Network for Arab American Communities, and Knight Foundation.[15]
References
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- ^ "Announcing the winning ideas in the Knight Arts Challenge St. Paul". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
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- ^ "Ordway's Sally Awards honor achievements in arts". Twin Cities. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
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