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I’m not striving for abstraction, but precision—where the words that want to be in the text can find their place in it.

— Adania Shibli Interview (2020)

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Differences between people are used to commit injustice—that was an early lesson about racism.

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Femininity to me is about the opposition to power and order in the sadistic fashion.

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

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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 another.

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

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