Mizna

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Mizna
FoundersKathryn Haddad and Saleh Abudayyeh
Founded at Saint Paul, Minnesota
Headquarters2446 University Ave W #115
Location
  • Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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]

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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, Zeina Hashem Beck, 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]

Chronological Table of Mizna Issues
VolumeIssueTheme*Publication DateContributorsNotes
11*Blank 'Theme' = unthemedJanuary 1999Joe Kadi, Saladdin Ahmed, Mohammed Almosa, Lisa Suheir Majaj, Nadia Higgins, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrãn, Kathryn Haddad, Nathalie Handal, Saleh Abudayyeh, and Adnan Shati.
12Spring/Summer 1999Pauline Kaldas, Abd al-Hayy Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, David Williams, Nahid Khan, Suheir Hammad, Annemarie Jacir, Ziad Shaker el-Jishi, and Fawzia Reda.
131999 Mohja Kahf, Elmaz Abinader, Sadida Athuallah, Anna Reckin, Lisa Gizzi, Nasser Yanbeiy, Najib Ghadbian, Susan Bassam Muaddi, Alia Yunis, and Cathy Camper.
212000 Rawi Hage, Dima Hilal, Ibtisam Barakat, Mark Riad Mikhael, Lorie Haddad, Shareef Riad, Jalaa’ Anwar Abdelwahab, Steven Salaita, Edith Dunn, and Hend Al-Mansour.
222000Sidi Benzahra, Esam Abdel Aal, Joe Kadi, Issa Boullata, Kazim Ali, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrãn, Nahid Khan, Aida Hasan, Hassan Mekouar, Youssef Rakha, and Natalia Yatsukhina.
232000Zahera Saed, Amani Elkassabani, Mark Hage, Rouane Itani, Stan West, Dunya Mikhail, Lisa Adwan, Kareem Aal, Yussef El Guindi, Graydon Kouri, and Jennifer Camper.
32Fall 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.
332001 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.
41Summer 2002Nabila 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.
42Winter 2002Sidi 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.
51Summer 2003Amani 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.
52Winter 2003Sahar 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.
61Summer 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)"
62Winter 2004R. 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.
71Comedy and SatireSummer 2005William 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.
72Winter 2005Angele 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.
81Summer 2006D. 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.
82The Lebanon IssueWinter 2006Fouzi 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.
91Summer 2007Cécile 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.
92The Family FamilyWinter 2007Taous 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.
1012008Niebal 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.
111 Mahmoud Darwish Memorial2009Anya 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.
1212011Faisal 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.
131Literature In RevolutionSummer 2012R. 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
132Winter 2012Andrea 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.
1412013Bilal 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.
151Eating the OtherSummer 2014R. 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
152Selected Proceedings of the RAWI + Mizna Lit GatheringWinter 2014Stephanie 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.
161Summer 2015Rasha 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.
162IntersectionalityWinter 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
171Summer 2016Nagat 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.
172The Environment IssueWinter 2016Rasha 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
181SurvivingSummer 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
182Winter 2017George 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.
191The Playing FieldSummer 2018Nabil 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
192The Palestine IssueWinter 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
201Twenty YearsSummer 2019Andrea 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.
211Queer + Trans VoicesSummer 2020Dina 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
212The Comix IssueWinter 2021Tarek 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
221Summer 2021Nofel, 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
222The Experimental IssueWinter 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
231Tribute to Etel AdnanSummer 2022Andrea 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 .
232The Black SWANA IssueWinter 2022Fahad 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
241Myth and MemoryForthcoming 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]

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]

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The Firecracker Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards focusing on small-press publishing. Previously known as the Firecracker Alternative Book Awards (FABs), in the current form they are known as the CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature, and are administered by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).

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