Minor Detail By Adania Shibli (Grades 10+)

Adania Shibli is a Palestinian author, essayist, and academic born in 1974. She holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of East London and divides her time between Jerusalem and Berlin. Her acclaimed work Minor Detail explores memory, violence, and the enduring impact of the past. The narrative juxtaposes a 1949 atrocity—a rape and murder of a Bedouin girl by soldiers—with a modern-day woman’s obsessive journey to uncover its truth. Shibli’s spare, poetic prose evokes haunting reflection on trauma, erasure, and historical injustice.