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

There was a certain period of time a person could either be inside or outside of Palestine. But now our being is always mingled with so many places at the same time.

Linguistic erasure on maps is where you first experience the betrayal of language; the erasure of Palestine from the map continues today. Your linguistic consciousness from an early age is built on reading these omissions. This is something I think I’ve been concerned with since the first text I wrote.

this landscape has an alliance with language; they exist together and actually can haunt you, despite any attempt at their erasure.