#AdaniaShibli

“If you are listening, it becomes so natural that you care, and you create a connection of care toward others that is not limited to the borders of the nation-state...” --Adania Shibli (1974- ) From an interview in World Literature Today, 2021 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #quotes #wisdom #adaniashibli

“If you are listening, it becomes so natural that you care, and you create a connection of care toward others that is not limited to the borders of the nation-state...”
--Adania Shibli (1974- )
From an interview in World Literature Today, 2021
#life #love #coffee #diary #quotes #wisdom #adaniashibli

#AdaniaShibli #Filozofskiteatar #Rijeka

My first time participating in a local Palestinian-inspired book club! It was fantastic, and I already can’t wait for the next book and meetup #FreePalestine #CollectCoffeeBar #MinorDetail #AdaniaShibli

Must be read - an ordinary experience of the occupation of Palestine 8.5/10
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📚 Now reading #MinorDetail by #AdaniaShibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette).

A short-ish novel on the Palestinian experience following the Nakba. Contains themes of war, violence and memory (according to the blurb)

#booksky

Adania Shibli: Das Buch als Feind Die palästinensische Autorin Adania Shibli erhielt für ihr Buch «Eine Nebensache» 2023 den LiBeraturpreis. Nach dem Massaker der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 wurde die geplante Preisverleihung im Rahmen der Frankfurter Buchmesse auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Hier die nie gehaltene Preisrede der Autorin.

Die palästinensische Autorin #AdaniaShibli erhielt 2023 den #LiBeraturpreis. Nach dem 7. Oktober wurde die geplante Verleihung an der #FrankfurterBuchmesse verschoben und nicht nachgeholt. Die WOZ veröffentlicht nun Shiblis nie gehaltene Preisrede.

www.woz.ch/2442/adan...

"...it looks like they're about to launch a ground invasion on rafah. i turn left, on a road that sends me far from all of gaza and the things that will befall it..."

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine #gaza #rafah

"...the heaviness of the sound translates my distance from the place being bombed. it's far, past the wall. in gaza, or maybe rafah..."

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine #gaza #rafah

"...people have to deal with enough misery in the world today; there's no reason to go searching for more and digging into the past..."

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

"...it's the barrier of fear, fashioned from fear of the barrier..."

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

"...sometimes it's inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific..."

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"...i do not love my life in particular, nor life in general, and at present any efforts on my part are solely channeled toward staying alive..."

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"...and the situation has been like this for such a long time that there aren't many people alive today who remember little details about what life was like before all this..."

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

front cover, minor detail by adania shibli

the evening's reading...

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading

Morgen
aus aktuellem Anlass
Lesung aus
EINE NEBENSACHE
von Adania Shibli
mit
Julia Franck
Deborah Feldman
Tomer Dotan Dreyfus @tomerdd.bsky.social
Eva Menasse
Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Dana Vowinckel
Deniz Yücel @besserdeniz.bsky.social
#fbm23
#adaniashibli

An Open Letter in Support of Adania Shibli From More Than 350 Writers, Editors, and Publishers This letter was originally published by ArabLit. The shocking and tragic events that began on October 7th and are ongoing today have had repercussions all over the globe, including within the publi…

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My new translation has an epigraph fr Susan Sontag's Frankfurt Friedenspreis speech (2003): "Who would we be if we could not sympathize with those who are not us or ours? [...] if we could not forget ourselves [...] if we could not learn? Forgive? Become something other than we are?" #AdaniaShibli

Read the letter on @arablit.bsky.social - well done Marcia & all! #AdaniaShibli arablit.org/2023/10/16/a...