Adania Shibli and Maria Barnas on language

What are the limits and capacities of literature? What can and cannot be put into words? How can we narrate an event when language becomes unreliable over time? These questions are central to the conversation on literature and language with renowned writer Adania Shibli and visual artist and poet Maria Barnas.

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