#mizna

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«Mizna» – SWANA Literature + Art, Volume 24.1, 2023: 'Myth and Memory', Mizna, St. Paul, MN

Feat.: Rasha Abdulhadi, Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, Lydia Abedeen, leena aboutaleb, Nyree Abrahamian, Maya Abu-AlHayyat, Yasmine Ameli, Aida Bardissi, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Sarah Cypher, Sara Elkamel, Bex Frankeberger, Zeina Hashem Beck, Umang Kalra, Aram Kavoossi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Aliah Lavonne Tigh, Angie Mazakis, azad namazie, Chiwenite Onyekwelu, Hana Saad, Lubna Safi, donia salem harhoor, Samia Saliba, Yasmine Seale, Moheb Soliman, Ojo Taiye; Sarah Cypher interviewed by George Abraham; Visual art by Sadik Kwaish Alfraji

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read the rest of the poem here

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Not Just Passing By Hiba Abu Nada

Translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine

Yesterday, a star said

to the little light in my heart,

We are not just transients

passing.

Do not die. Beneath this glow

some wanderers go on

walking.

You were first created out of love,

so carry nothing but love

to those who are trembling.

One day, all gardens sprouted

from our names, from what remained

of hearts yearning.

And since it came of age, this ancient language

has taught us how to heal others

with our longing,

how to be a heavenly scent

to relax their tightening lungs: a welcome sigh,

a gasp of oxygen.

Softly, we pass over wounds,

like purposeful gauze, a hint of relief,

an aspirin.

O little light in me, don’t die,

even if all the galaxies of the world

close in.

O little light in me, say:

Enter my heart in peace. 

All of you, come in!

Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, and educator. Her novel الأكسجين ليس للموتى  (Oxygen Is Not for the Dead) won second place in the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She was killed in her home in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli airstrike on October 20, 2023. She was 32. You can also read her poem “I Grant You Refuge” at Protean in Huda Fakhreddine’s translation.

Huda Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a writer, a translator, and the author of several scholarly books.

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Immigration News: April 30, 2024

After a week of medical time off from the keyboard, immigration news piled up! Today’s five stories are all about Minnesota immigration news. The Biden administration established a new program that allows private sponsorship of refugees—the Welcome Corps. That sounded great to some refugees already living in Minnesota, who decided to give back by sponsoring someone else.  Continue reading…

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Love comes in many forms. Lying to me can be an act of love. When SZA asks a man to lie about her booty getting bigger or when JoJo belts out about a man who’s given all her love away to continue to lie to her, I know the euphoria of the fantasy of love and loving they are trying to capture. I am a serial liar when it comes to pursuing love. More precisely, I lie by omission. Which is still lying. I test the intangibility of emotion. I don’t like the chase as much as I like the hunt. If I can’t have love in my life, can I make someone fall in love with me, and what would they love about me if they fell in love? Every Muslim girl is a liar. We need to lie to function. As we get older and our mothers wonder where their grandchildren are, we’re out here getting played and playing ourselves. I thought I’d grow out of playing games, but the danger of getting caught in a lie can be fun. “I didn’t mean that, I was lying,” slips out of me on a regular basis. I lie about deadlines, when I’m coming home, whether I’ll make it to a place on time, and about how I feel all the time. Why not lie in love too? Nothing is sacred, so everything has to be. And the lies? They turn me on.

Najma Sharif, Lover Girl

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💀 Mizna Wada Dolls 💀

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#moviemonday 🕸️

Spider Baby: or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)

The crazy sisters are so cute! 🕷️🔪

Again this week, I’m posting a drawing I’ve done before from the movies you recommended for September #moviemonday .

「スパイダー・ベイビー」 (1967)

イカれた姉妹がかわいいんだ！

今週も9月用のみなさまのおすすめ映画リストの中から、過去に描いたことのある作品を投稿してます。

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I love my stupid little ocs, look at this grown ass man, I hate him

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bonequinha do cabelo cor-de-rosa

meus antigos layouts ! (deixando para guardar)

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«Mizna» – SWANA Literature + Art, Volume 25.1, 2024: 'Catastrophe', Mizna, St. Paul, MN

Feat.: Contributions from: Leila Abdelrazaq, leena Aboutaleb, Yahya Ashour, Sarah Aziza, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, River 瑩 瑩 Dandelion, Mahmoud Darwish, Olivia Elias, Ruba El Melik, Meriem Evangeline, Summer Farah, Noor Hindi, Sophie Jaulmes, Arthur Kayzakian, Leila Mansouri, Aurielle Marie, Nyla Matuk, Ahlaam Moledina, J Omer, mónica teresa ortiz, Michael Lawrence Payne, Aman Rahman, Jérémy Victor Robert, Alan Semerdjian, Nadia Shammas, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, Danez Smith, Veera Sulaiman, Talin Tahajian, Alia Taqieddin, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian, Hawwa Youngmark, and Mohammed Zenia. Visual art by Taysir Batniji

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Art by Mizna Wada

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Art by Mizna Wada

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🔮 ₊˚⊹♡

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–Palestinian poet and editor of Mizna, George Abraham.