Mizna 25.2, Futurities invites you to face the status quo governing our present, exercise your imagination, and invoke alternative worlds.

Mizna: Futurities features contributions from Fathelbari Ahmad Al Hassan, Haidar Alghazali, Dana Alsamsam,  Sara Bedri, Pınar Banu Yaşar, Walid Daqqa, Abi Diaz, Sara Elkamel, Malak Hijazi, Nour Eldin Hussein, Randa Jarrar, Najwa Juma, Mona Kareem, Douglas Kearney, Nancy Kricorian, Aya Krisht, Elise Thi Tran, Faisal Mohyuddin, Umniya Najaer, Chinaecherem Obor, Ladan Osman, Abu Bakr Sadiq, Maya Salameh, Gina Alexandra Srmabekian, and Yi Wei.

Guest editors Barrak Alzaid and Aram Kavoossi.

Visual art by Siah Armajani

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Mizna: The Black SWANA Issue, guest-edited by Safia Elhillo and produced by an all-Black takeover team, explores the infinitely varied and kaleidoscopic nature of the Black SWANA experience.

Mizna: The Black SWANA Issue features contributions by 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.

The paintings of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, a key figure in many Sudanese modernist art movements, perhaps most famously the Crystalist movement, will grace the pages of The Black SWANA Issue. Additionally, poet Charif Shanahan sits down with guest-editor Safia Elhillo for an interview.

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