Etel Adnan

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

Lebanon in a Whirlwind

Axis of Light

Ismyrna

Adnan Being and Time

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another

P.S. Beirut, Chapter One

All Movies (8)

• Etel Adnan: Undying Colours2026
• Adnan Being and Time2025
• Ismyrna2016 · as Herself
• I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another2012 · as Self
• Axis of Light2011
• Etel Adnan: Words in Exile2008 · as Self
• P.S. Beirut, Chapter One2008
• Lebanon in a Whirlwind1975 · as Self