I’m fascinated by what borders try to prevent, and why. And sometimes by how their meaning and the perception of them shifts from one situation to an… - Adania Shibli

I’m open to where life leads me.

As one lives in a place that seems like a punishment for a crime they didn’t commit, it raises harsh questions in relation to simple ideas like justice, or it’s absence, at an early age...maybe the realization of the repeated injustice that one cannot escape in the context of Palestine was the first force to push me early on into literature.

It is within such structures that I feel a grand narrative can exist, like a dictatorship—solid, like the worst tyrant.