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Join our monthly online series Words for Palestine which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time.

This special edition celebrates writing in Mizna’s most recent issue, Futurities, and features readings from sara bedri, Malak Hijazi, Najwa Juma, Aya Krisht, Ladan Osman, and Maya Salameh.

June 26, 2025 at 7pm ET/6pm CT

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sara bedri is a Sudanese poet and writer exploring identity, memory, and belonging. Her poetry captures personal moments of introspection shaped by collective grief and solidarity. Holding an MSc in digital communication, she is intrigued by the cultural intersections of technology and human experience.

Malak Hijazi, a comparative literature MA graduate and writer from Gaza, Palestine, explores the world through a spatial lens. In a city that seems to forget itself, she senses her own identity slipping away. Confronting the “Extinction of Place” or “Erasure of Place,” she strives to document memory and the shifting landscapes molded by war. Her life revolves around a continuous cycle of evacuating, reading, and writing amid the ongoing genocide.

Najwa Juma is a Palestinian poet, playwright, translator, and educator. A former JJR fellow, she received a Bachelor’s degree in English literature and a diploma in education. Najwa is a member of the General Union of Palestinian Women and has received several literary prizes. She has published three short story collections focused on Palestinian women’s lives.

Aya Krisht is a designer, printmaker, and researcher based in metro Detroit, with roots in the Galilee. Her practice is concerned with print praxis and tradition with a focus on book arts, letterpress, and Arabic movable type. She is cofounder of Maamoul Press, an award-winning independent publishing project. 

Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a Whiting Award, and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony, winner of the Sillerman Prize. She lives in New York.

Maya Salameh urges you to contribute your efforts, movements, and time to Palestinian liberation. She is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020).

Words For Palestine is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society, Mizna, Palestine Writes, RAWI and Sukoon, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza.

For questions, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org

About Mizna: Futurities

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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