Born in Palestine, in 1974. She has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. She has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine in 2001 and in 2003. Her novel Tafsil Thanawi (Al-Adab, 2017, translated as Minor Detail, Fitzcarraldo Edition/UK, and New Directions/USA, 2020), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and in 2021 it was nominated for the International Booker Prize. Her latest is Tamwih(Delusion, al-Adab, 2025). Shibli is also engaged in academic research and teaching in different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012-2018). From 2022- 2025 she acted a a co-curator of the Bergen Assembly 2025, Bergen, Norway.
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