Adania Shibli

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Adania Shibli ( Arabic عدنية شبلي, DMG ʿAdaniyya Šiblī , born 1974 in Palestine ) is a Palestinian writer.

Life and writing career

Adania Shibli was born in a small Palestinian village in the Upper Galilee , which is now within the borders of Israel . She studied communication and journalism and earned an MA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , where she wrote her master's thesis in 2001 with the title Discourse, power, and media coverage of the killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli Army . After graduating, she worked with important Palestinian cultural institutions such as the Palestinian National Theater al-Hakawati ( Arabic المسرح الوطني الفلسطيني) in Jerusalem and the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center ( Arabic مركز خليل السكاكيني الثقافي) in Ramallah together.

Her literary talent was discovered by Mahmud Darwish , in whose literary magazine Al-Karmel (in Ramallah) her stories first appeared. She also published her short stories and essays in the literary magazines Al-Adaab and Zawaya (in Beirut ) and Amkenah (in Alexandria ). Many of her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Hebrew and Korean. English translations of her work have appeared in Words Without Borders, among others . In 2002 her first, very successful novel Misās was published . For this and for her second novel (2004) she was honored with a price. Her 2005 play The Error was performed at the Tristan Bates Theater in London and in the United States at the New World Theater in Amherst, Massachusetts and at Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco .

In 2009 Shibli also obtained a Ph.D. from the University of East London. in Media and Cultural Studies . Her dissertation is entitled Visual Terror: A Study of the Visual Compositions of the 9/11 Attacks and Major Attacks in the 'War on Terror' by British and French Television Networks .

In addition to her literary work, Shibli also works as a lecturer. She taught at the School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham in the UK from 2005 to 2009 and was a visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in 2008 . She teaches visual culture at the Palestinian University of Bir Zait .

As part of the postdoc research program EUME, she received a scholarship from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2011/2012 . In 2012 she was a guest at the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Awards and honors

The AM Qattan Foundation honored Shibli for her novel Misās and again for Kullunā Baʿīd bi-Ḏāt al-Miqdār ʿan al-Ḥubb with the Young Writer's Award – Palestine . She is also a member of Beirut , 39 a group of 39 promising Arab writers under the age of 40 whose members were selected in a competition in 2009. The initiators of this competition were the independent London literary magazine Banipal , which is dedicated to promoting contemporary Arabic literature through translations into English, and the Hay Festival , a major annual literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, Welsh .

Works (selection)

Books
  • Discourse, power, and media coverage of the killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli Army . Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2001, OCLC 610232011
  • Misās (مساس). Al-Adab, 2002.
    • Reflets sur un mur blanc . Actes-sud, 2004, (French)
    • Sensi . Argo, 2007, (Italian)
    • Touch . Clockroot Books, Northampton (MA) 2010, ISBN 9781566568074 , (English)
    • Beröring . Bokförlaget Tranan, 2018, ISBN 9789188253378 , (Swedish)
  • Kullunā Baʿīd bi-Ḏāt al-Miqdār ʿan al-Ḥubb (كلنا بعيد بذات المقدار عن الحب). Al-Adab, 2004.
  • Keep your eye on the wall: Palestinian landscapes , Saqi Books, London 2013, ISBN 9780863567599 , (English)
  • Tafṣīl Ṯānawī (تفصيل ثانوي). Beirut 2017.
Play
  • The Error (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Adania Shibli. In: kennedy-center.org. The Kennedy Center, accessed May 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cristina Micalusi: Cultura: Sensi di Adania Shibli. In: nena-news.it. July 29, 2014, accessed May 4, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ^ Discourse, power, and media coverage of the killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli Army (Book, 2001). In: worldcat.org. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Visual Terror: A Study of the Visual Compositions of the 9/11 Attacks and Major Attacks in the 'War on Terror' by British and French Television Networks (Ph.D. Thesis). University of East London, 2009, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Nadia Yaqub, Rula Quawas (Ed.): Bad Girls of the Arab World . University of Texas Press, 2017, ISBN 1-4773-1336-2 , pp. 227 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ a b Adania Shibli. In: literaturfestival.com. Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  7. ^ Forum Transregional Studies eV: Adania Shibli. In: eume-berlin.de. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  8. ^ Samuel Shimon: Beirut 39 . Bloomsbury, 2010, ISBN 1-4088-0612-6 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  9. ↑ What are the Hay Festival '39' Projects? In: hayfestival.com. Hay Festival, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Shibli, Adania
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arabic عدنية شبلي
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Palestine (region)