Mizna

Join Monthly for Mizna, our collective force of monthly sustainers 

keeping our work in motion. 

Your support powers the work of Arab, Southwest Asian, and North African artists questioning and expanding culture—every single month. Together, we create space for art that builds momentum toward liberation. Change happens collectively. #monthlyformizna

At Mizna’s beginning, there was no other organization like it. We saw a need to provide a cultural space for Arab and SWANA communities to join together around literature, film, music, dance, and art that was created by and for us. 

Today, our work and our communities are faced with ever more urgency; our kin in Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Artsakh, and beyond face unspeakable threat and violence; our kin across the US face crackdowns on free speech, illegal deportations, and police brutality; artists and arts organizations face ever-scarcer funding and increased censorship. In these unprecedented times, there is still no organization doing what Mizna does. 

Mizna will continue to nurture a liberatory space that encourages the exchange of ideas among artists, filmmakers, writers, cultural workers, and audiences locally and around the world. To ensure that we can actualize this vision and decrease our reliance on fickle and conditional institutional support, we must expand our individual giving network. Can you help us continue our work and double our monthly donors?  

We currently have 67 monthly donors. Our goal is to reach 134 monthly donors by the end of this year. Each monthly contribution is vital in sustaining the art, values, and justice that define Mizna. Any monthly donation, even $5 per month, contributes to the living mosaic of creative expression, resistance, and vision we all belong to. 

By joining Monthly for Mizna, you’ve made a material commitment to Arab & SWANA creative autonomy. These monthly donations provide sustainable, predictable income for Mizna and for the many artists we support. In exchange for your support, we will continue to share our narratives, uplift our many voices, and maintain the level of integrity you have come to expect from Mizna. 

Monthly and one-time donors will be thanked in Mizna's literary journal, among other places. If you would like to opt out of this, please make your donation anonymous.