Person
Etel Adnan
Acting · 1925–2021 · Beirut, Lebanon
Biography
Etel Adnan was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
Known for
A Letter from Beirut
Writer
Lebanon in a Whirlwind
Self
Etel Adnan: Undying Colours
2026
Etel Adnan: Words in Exile
Self
Axis of Light
2011
P.S. Beirut, Chapter One
2008
Adnan Being and Time
2025
Motion
Director
Ismyrna
Herself
I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another
Self
Filmography
- 2026Etel Adnan: Undying Colours
- 2025Adnan Being and Time
- 2016IsmyrnaHerself
- 2012I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and AnotherSelf
- 2012MotionDirector
- 2011Axis of Light
- 2008Etel Adnan: Words in ExileSelf
- 2008P.S. Beirut, Chapter One
- 1978A Letter from BeirutWriter
- 1975Lebanon in a WhirlwindSelf
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