Adania Shibli is the author of Minor Detail (2020), nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize.

In this public conversation, Shibli will discuss her literary writing in a conversation with Başak Ertür, Reader in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, author of Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (2022). The event will be introduced by Akanksha Mehta, Senior Lecturer in Gender, Race, and Cultural Studies, whose forthcoming book, Rightwing Sisterhood: Everyday Politics of Hindutva and Zionist Women, is being published by OUP.

Adania Shibli has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. Her latest novel Tafsil Thanawi (2017), translated as Minor Detail (2020), was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021. She has twice been awarded the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine, in 2001 for her novel Masaas (2002) translated as Touch (2009), and in 2003 for her novel Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub (2004) translated as We Are All Equally Far from Love (2012). Shibli is also engaged in academic research and teaching in different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012-2018).

This conversation is co-hosted by Forensic Architecture, the Department of Visual Cultures, the Centre for Research Architecture, the Centre for Feminist Research, and the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy.