Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli was born in 1974 in Palestine. Her novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays have been published in various anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines in a number of different languages. She has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine in 2001 for her novel Masaas , and in 2003 for her novel Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub.

Amongst her non-fiction books are, the art book Dispositions (Qattan, 2012), and an edited collection of essays entitled A Journey of Ideas Across: In Dialog with Edward Said, (HKW, 2014). Alongside her writing, Shibli is engaged in academic research, and since 2013 she has been teaching part-time at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine.