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I always ask myself what kind of terrible things I could commit. This is a question for any human being.

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

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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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