Adania Shibli
Biographic Data
| ID | 904685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adania Shibli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adania |
| FAMILY NAME | Shibli |
| SIGNATURE | SHIBLI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Royal British Legion |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Universalism & narration
Whispers in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem
Adania Shibli’s story ‘Whispers in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem’ contemplates the ordinary lives of elderly Armenian Palestinians living in a neighbourhood in the Old City of Jerusalem. It investigates how the contemporary life of Armenians in Palestine, who survived the Armenian genocide but not the ensuing forced migration and expulsion, differs from the experience common to peoples who were forced into migration or expelled from their homes…
Palestine as a Position of Witnessing: A Conversation with Adania Shibli
In her novel Minor Detail, Palestinian author Adania Shibli sculpts—with trenchant words—a fragile memorial for a Bedouin girl, murdered and raped in the Negev desert in 1949 ( WLT , Summer 2020, 87). The mostly silent drama unfolds under a glass dome of heat and hate. The reader gets a terribly close view of the perpetrator, while his victim remains elusive. And the teenage victim becomes only more fugitive in the second part of the book, when, …
On Stealing Books and Missing Words
Looking at the context of Palestine in the years before, and after the Nakba (Catastrophe) in the aftermath of the 1948 War, this article reflects on the manifold relationships between humans, words and books in the context of colonisation and efforts to manage the colonised. Here, this article looks specifically at the effects of holding and sharing knowledge versus withholding it, as reflected in the process of publishing books, versus stealing…
Bad Girls of the Arab World
Explores the new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boundaries to bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. Performers such as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage to comment upon gender and racial hierarchies, chide Sudanese power brokers about their transgressions, and encourage a more inclusive and just society. Pushback against new voices have included charges in the public domain (e.g. Yo…
Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More: Translated from the Arabic by Suneela Mubayi
One night, as I stood near the bar at a tango club in Paris, a handsome man approached me and invited me to dance with him. No, I shook my head, I do not know how to dance the tango. The poor man n
A Lesson in the Nature of Revolution
Inspired by the Arab uprisings, Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli reflects on her childhood home and her parents’ attempt to banish a thorny plant from the garden
We Are All Equally Far from Love
The work of award-winning Palestinian writer Adania Shibli has been published in literary magazines in the Middle East and Europe and in the Words Without Borders anthology The World Through the Eyes of Writers {2007). Anton Shammas calls Shibli one of my most favorite Arab writers_She has created for herself in recent years something that, especially for a young writer, is hard to achieve: a solid literary presence, a distinct voice, and a uniqu…
Indifférente, ou presque
Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More: Translated from the Arabic by Suneela Mubayi
One night, as I stood near the bar at a tango club in Paris, a handsome man approached me and invited me to dance with him. No, I shook my head, I do not know how to dance the tango. The poor man n
Indifférente, ou presque
We Are All Equally Far from Love
The work of award-winning Palestinian writer Adania Shibli has been published in literary magazines in the Middle East and Europe and in the Words Without Borders anthology The World Through the Eyes of Writers {2007). Anton Shammas calls Shibli one of my most favorite Arab writers_She has created for herself in recent years something that, especially for a young writer, is hard to achieve: a solid literary presence, a distinct voice, and a uniqu…
A Lesson in the Nature of Revolution
Inspired by the Arab uprisings, Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli reflects on her childhood home and her parents’ attempt to banish a thorny plant from the garden
Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More: Translated from the Arabic by Suneela Mubayi
One night, as I stood near the bar at a tango club in Paris, a handsome man approached me and invited me to dance with him. No, I shook my head, I do not know how to dance the tango. The poor man n
Bad Girls of the Arab World
Explores the new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boundaries to bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. Performers such as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage to comment upon gender and racial hierarchies, chide Sudanese power brokers about their transgressions, and encourage a more inclusive and just society. Pushback against new voices have included charges in the public domain (e.g. Yo…
Palestine as a Position of Witnessing: A Conversation with Adania Shibli
In her novel Minor Detail, Palestinian author Adania Shibli sculpts—with trenchant words—a fragile memorial for a Bedouin girl, murdered and raped in the Negev desert in 1949 ( WLT , Summer 2020, 87). The mostly silent drama unfolds under a glass dome of heat and hate. The reader gets a terribly close view of the perpetrator, while his victim remains elusive. And the teenage victim becomes only more fugitive in the second part of the book, when, …
On Stealing Books and Missing Words
Looking at the context of Palestine in the years before, and after the Nakba (Catastrophe) in the aftermath of the 1948 War, this article reflects on the manifold relationships between humans, words and books in the context of colonisation and efforts to manage the colonised. Here, this article looks specifically at the effects of holding and sharing knowledge versus withholding it, as reflected in the process of publishing books, versus stealing…
Universalism & narration
Whispers in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem
Adania Shibli’s story ‘Whispers in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem’ contemplates the ordinary lives of elderly Armenian Palestinians living in a neighbourhood in the Old City of Jerusalem. It investigates how the contemporary life of Armenians in Palestine, who survived the Armenian genocide but not the ensuing forced migration and expulsion, differs from the experience common to peoples who were forced into migration or expelled from their homes…
History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Palestine (3 works)