Minor Detail: A Salon in Honor of Adania Shibli
In this talk, Adania Shibli will be joined by Layli Long Soldier and Madeleine Thien to discuss Shibli’s haunting novel, Minor Detail.
Adania Shibli
On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”
Upcoming Events: ‘Mawaqif’, ‘Bila Hudood’ Festival & More
A few upcoming events, taking place online.
Pop-up Book Club Discussion of Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail’
Sahar Mustafah and Susan Darraj will lead a virtual pop-up book club discussion on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, which is this year’s 1 Book, Many Communities selection from Librarians and […]
Upcoming Events: Palestine in Food & Verse, Arabic Lit in Europe & More
A few upcoming events, taking place online.
Upcoming Events: Adania Shibli, Shubbak Festival Events, ‘Between Beirut & the Moon’ and More
A few upcoming events, taking place online.
Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail’, Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, Makes Booker Longlist
“ooker International organizers announced 2021’s longlist Tuesday morning. Unsurprisingly, Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Lissie Jaquette, was on the 13-book list.”
Works by Adania Shibli, Jonas Hassen Khemiri Are 2020 National Book Awards Finalists
Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, in Elisabeth Jaquette’s translation from Arabic, and Tunisian-Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Family Clause, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menziet, both made the 2020 shortlist of the National Book […]
Friday Finds: Adania Shibli, Haytham el-Wardany, and Sinan Antoon in ‘Specimen’
“Assuming that words’ eyes have also been gouged, this dossier asks: How can literature assist us in reclaiming the capacity to imagine a less monstrous form of togetherness today?”