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Mizna
Mizna is a nonprofit arts organization located 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.” Since 1999, Mizna has published a biannual literary journal, ''Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America''. 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 Sparks. In 2020, Mizna was named Best Nonprofit by City Pages. History Mizna () 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Khalidi (writer)
Ismail Khalidi ( ar, إسماعيل خالدي; born 1982) is a Palestinian/Lebanese American playwright, screenwriter and theater director whose work tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism, displacement and war. He is best known for the plays ''Tennis in Nablus'' (2010) and ''Truth Serum Blues'' (2005) and thcritically-acclaimed''Returning to Haifa,'' which premiered in London in 2018. ''Tennis in Nablus'' received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the ''Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award'' and the ''Quest for Peace Playwriting Award.'' Since then his plays have been produced and presented internationally and published in half a dozen anthologies. Background Khalidi was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1982 in the wake of the Israeli invasion but grew up primarily in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Rashid Khalidi and Mona Khalidi and the grandson of Ismail Khalidi. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad (born October 25, 1973) is an American poet, author, actress, performer, and political activist. Biography She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated along with their daughter to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old. Her parents later moved to Staten Island. As an adolescent growing up in Brooklyn, Hammad was heavily influenced by Brooklyn's vibrant hip-hop scene. She had also absorbed the stories from her parents and grandparents of life in their hometown of Lydda, before the 1948 Palestinian exodus, and of the suffering they endured afterward, first in the Gaza Strip and then in Jordan. From these disparate influences Hammad was able to weave into her work a common narrative of dispossession, not only in her capacity as an immigrant, a Palestinian and a Muslim, but as a woman struggling against society's inherent sexism and as a poet in her own right. When hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons came across he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CLMP
The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is an American organization of independent literary publishers and magazines. It was founded in 1967 by Robie Macauley, Reed Whittemore (''The Carleton Miscellany,'' ''The New Republic''); Jules Chametzky (''The Massachusetts Review''); George Plimpton (''The Paris Review''); and William Phillips (''The Partisan Review'') as the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM) at the suggestion of the National Endowment for the Arts, and renamed in 1989 as the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. In April 2015, the organization took its current name. it has about 350 members, half with a budget of less than $10,000. In 200CLMP Onlinewas launched as an online resource providing technical assistance and information services for literary publishers and as an internet center for information about the field for readers, writers, media, and the general public. Firecracker Awards The Firecracker Awards are presented annually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir ( ar, آن ماري جاسر) is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and producer. Career Filmmaker She has been working in independent cinema since 1998 and has written, directed and produced a number of award-winning films. Two of her films have premiered as Official Selections in Cannes, one in Berlin and in Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Telluride. All three of her feature films were selected as Palestine's Oscar Entry for Foreign Language Film. Her short film, '' like twenty impossibles'' was the first Arab short film to ever be an official selection of the Cannes International Film Festival and went on to be a Student Academy Awards Finalist, winning more than 15 awards at International festivals including Best Film at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Chicago International Film Festival, Institute Du Monde Arabe Biennale, Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, and IFP/New York. ''like twenty impossibles'' was named one of the ten b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saladdin Ahmed
Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book ''Throne of the Crescent Moon'' was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.Locus Awards Winners , '''', June 29, 2013. Ahmed's fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines including '''', |
Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf ( ar, مهجة قحف, born 1967 in Damascus) is a Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor. She authored ''Hagar Poems'' which won honorable mention in the 2017 Book Awards of the Arab American National Museum. She is the recipient of Pushcart Prize for her creative nonfiction essay, "The Caul of Inshallah" and the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 2002 for poetry. Her poetry has been featured in the installments of American neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. Early life Kahf was born in Damascus, Syria. In March 1971, at the age of three and a half, she moved to the United States. She grew up in a devout Muslim household. Both of her parents came to the United States as students at the University of Utah. Kahf and her family moved to Indiana after her parents received their university degrees. When she was in the tenth grade, she and her family moved to New Jersey. In 1984, Kahf lived in Iraq for a brief time. During college, she did one sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County, Minnesota, Ramsey County. Situated on high bluffs overlooking a bend in the Mississippi River, Saint Paul is a regional business hub and the center of Minnesota's government. The Minnesota State Capitol and the state government offices all sit on a hill close to the city's downtown district. One of the oldest cities in Minnesota, Saint Paul has several historic neighborhoods and landmarks, such as the Summit Avenue (St. Paul), Summit Avenue Neighborhood, the James J. Hill House, and the Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota), Cathedral of Saint Paul. Like the adjacent and larger city of Minneapolis, Saint Paul is known for its cold, snowy winters and humid summers. As of the 2021 census estimates, the city's population was 307,193, making it the List of United States cities by population, 67th-largest city in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal is an American poet, writer and educator, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker of Mediterranean roots, she has published seven prize-winning collections, including ''Life in a Country Album.'' She is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.” Biography Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet and writer born in the Caribbean to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She has lived in France, Italy, the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Arab world. After earning a MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, Vermont and a MPhil in English and Drama at the University of London, Handal began writing and translating global literature in the 1990s. She currently resides in New York City, Rome and Paris and teaches at New York University. Literary career Handal has authored books of poetry, plays, essays, and has edited two anthologies and has been involved as a writer, director, or producer in several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeyn Joukhadar
Zeyn Joukhadar is a Syrian American writer. Joukhadar is the recipient of the 2021 Stonewall Book Awards and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction for '' The Thirty Names of Night''. Biography Zeyn Joukhadar is nonbinary and uses he/him/they pronouns. Joukhadar is originally from New York City and has a PhD in Pathobiology from Brown University. Prior to pursuing writing full time, he worked as a biomedical research scientist. His first novel, ''The Map of Salt and Stars'', was published in 2018. Published works Novels * * Anthology (Fiction) * * Anthology (Non-Fiction) * * Honors and awards Won ''The Map of Salt and Stars'' * 2018 Middle East Book Award - Youth Literature Award ''The Thirty Names of Night'' * 2021 Stonewall Book Awards The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Suheir Majaj
Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar. Born in Hawarden, Iowa, Majaj was raised in Jordan. She earned a B.A. in English literature from American University of Beirut and an M.A. in English Literature, an M.A. in American Culture and a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. In 2001, she moved to Nicosia, Cyprus. Her poetry and essays have been widely published. In 2008, she was awarded the Del Sol Press Annual Poetry Prize for her poetry manuscript '' Geographies of Light''.Sazzad, Rehnuma (2013) "Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geographies of Light: the Lighted Landscape of Hope (Book Review)," Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 11. "In difficult times, poets and writers have always provided lifelines." Works *Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers (Garland, 2000) *Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women's Novels (Syracuse Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmaz Abinader
Elmaz Abinader (born 1954 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). She is of Lebanon, Lebanese descent. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection ''In the Country of My Dreams...''. Life Born in a small coal mining community in southwest Pennsylvania, she lived with her parents and her five siblings in a household strongly rooted in Lebanese tradition. Her childhood was spent helping out in her family store, attending Catholic church twice a day, and focusing on her schooling. Abinader and her siblings faced challenges due to their ethnicity. Abinader received her B.A. in Writing and Communication from University of Pittsburgh in 1974. It was during this time that she embrace her heritage and wrote about her family’s history. She earned her Master of Fine Arts, MFA in Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawzia Reda
Fawzia or Faouzia or Fouzia is an Arabic personal name. Notable people named Fawzia or alternative spellings include: Fawzia *Fawzia Yusuf H. Adam, Somali politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia * Fawzia Assaad (born 1929), Egyptian novelist writing in French *Fawzia Fahim, Egyptian scientist biochemist and environmental biologist *Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Pakistani-American academic * Princess Fawzia of Egypt (other), various members of Egyptian royalty **Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921-2013), daughter of King Fuad I of Egypt, and first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran **Princess Fawzia Farouk of Egypt (1940–2005), daughter of King Farouk of Egypt **Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt (born 12 February 1982), daughter of King Fuad II of Egypt *Fawzia Koofi (born 1975), Afghan politician and women's rights activist *Fawzia Mohamed, Egyptian model *Fawzia Mirza, Pakistani-American actress * Fawzia Peer, South African p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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