I’m open to where life leads me. - Adania Shibli

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

People may gain from literature what they cannot get from their own lives. It’s not escapism but rather a kind of openness.

to “think about” Palestine is already a position of privilege that I would not like to engage with. My concern with Palestine is a personal one, not a literary one. It forms my literature; but my literature is never about Palestine. It is rather within and from Palestine as a condition of injustice; of the normalization of pain and degradation.