Written Arts Program, Middle Eastern Studies Program, Human Rights Project, and Human Rights Program Present
Adania Shibli: "With Minimal Force"
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Olin Humanities, Room 102
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
'Playing' and 'cunning' have emerged over the last couple of decades as tenable measures for countering military and political oppression, exploitation, and deep inequality in Palestine/Israel. A variety of art works have similarly endorsed these measures to shun such a reality. Her talk will explore this work, including the image on the poster, "Hourglass" (2012), by artist Majd Abdel Hamid.5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Adania Shibli is an award-winning writer whose most recent novel, Minor Detail (2020), was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for a National Book Award. Her first two books, Touch (2001) and We are all equally far from love (2003), both received the Qattan Foundation's Young Writers Award.
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Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102