Minor Detail - Adania Shibli Laura has taken the drastic

Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized

they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the region’s recently overthrown fascist regime

and between words and silence

and was a significant contributing factor to his suicide at the age of thirty-six

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli Laura has taken the drasticMinor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this minor detail