Adania Shibli


Adania Shibli is a Palestinian author. She was born in Palestine in 1974.

Education

Shibli holds a Ph.D. from the University of East London in Media and Cultural Studies. Her dissertation is titled Visual Terror: A Study of the Visual Compositions of the 9/11 Attacks and Major Attacks in the 'War on Terror' by British and French Television Networks.

Literary works

Shibli has received the Young Writer’s Award–Palestine by the A. M. Qattan Foundation for both her novels Touch and We are all equally far from love. She was named as one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the age of 40 chosen through a contest organised by Banipal magazine and the Hay Festival.