June 27, 2022: I Want Sky reading + Open Mic in New York. RSVP now for limited spots.

Mizna, in partnership with Asian American Writers Workshops’ The Margins, present I Want Sky, a collection honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora.

The notebook, guest-edited by Mariam Bazeed, features contributions from AMA, Amir Ferdjani, Banah el Ghadbanah, donial salem harhooor, Eman Desouky, Gamal El Sawah, Ghinwa Jawhari, Janine Mogannam, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Layla Zbinden, ‘mad, Mejdulene B. Shomali, Mish Ismy, Nada Almosa, Niki Asfar, Nour Kamel, Nusaiba Imady, Qais Kamran, Shiyam Galyon, and Walid Daou. This special collaboration was designed by Morcos Key with illustrations by Haitham Haddad of Studio Mnjnk.

Read more about I Want Sky and watch launch reading video.

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Mizna: The Cinema Issue delves into the relationship between moving image–making and writing through the formal and conceptual framework of fragmentation, a theme which remains increasingly urgent to the SWANA region in the midst of the genocide in Gaza. Guest-edited by Palestinian filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, the issue is our most formally experimental publication to date. From vintage movie posters to photo essays, this limited edition issue’s beyond-the-bounds format, designed by Alex DeArmond, emphasizes fragmentation through special printed elements, held together in a single folio.

The issue includes contributions from Andrea Abi-Karam, Emily Ahmed, Nadira Amrani, Sophia Attigui, Aida Bardissi, Banah El Ghadbanah, Lara El Gibaly, Christiane Gruber, Jamie Lee Haddad, Roann Hassani McCloskey, Søren Lind, Raed Rafei, Yasmine Roukiaya, Reman Sadani, Larissa Sansour, Andrea Shaker, Jen Siraganian, Eman Quotah, and Lori Yeghiayan Friedman.

Additionally, guest editor Saeed Taji Farouky conducts interviews with Kamal Aljafari, Roann Hassani McCloskey, and Nadira Amrani. The cover image, a behind-the-scenes shot of Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s film, was photographed by Lenka Rayn H.

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