Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social change. Most attention to the political significance of Black churches, however, focuses on domestic...
"As we approach the seventh month of the latest genocidal escalation on Gaza, it is with humility and profound grief that we announce the publication of Mizna Fellow Yahya Ashour’s poetry e-book A Gaza of Seige & Genocide. Proceeds from...
Set between the Old City of Jerusalem and the quiet countryside of Britain,Yassini Girls follows two women bound by blood, memory, and a past thatrefuses to be forgotten. When Fatima receives an unexpected phone call in an ancient...
A multigenerational and empowering story that explores the resilience of the human spirit to persist through life's most difficult challenges, using the powerful symbolism that the key has come to represent in the Palestinian cause for freedom and...
Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe’s civil wars and theparadigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to...
In his second book of poems, Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue. This collection blurs the borders between languages, between the living and the dead, between presence and absence.
The poems of...
Yasmeen is a typical 10-year-old girl looking forward to the weekend — until her father insists she join him at the masjid to meet newly arrived refugee families.Reluctantly, she goes, expecting nothing in common with them. But then...
The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide...
No One Knows Their Blood Type is a novel of identity, belonging, and conflicting truths—of stories, secrets, songs, rumors, and lies. On the day that her father dies, Jumana makes a discovery about her blood type. Hers could not have been...
Cactus Pear for my Beloved is the story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland.Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as...
