Liana Badr
Liana Badr (born 1950 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian novelist, and short story writer.[1]
Life
She was raised in Jericho. She studied at the University of Jordan. She graduated from the Beirut Arab University with a BA in philosophy and psychology.[2] She was an editor for Al Hurriyya.
After 1982, she moved to Damascus, then Tunis, and Amman. She returned to Palestine in 1994.[3]
She runs the Cinema and Audiovisual department, Palestinian ministry of culture. She was editor of Dafater Thaqafiyya.[4]
Works
- بوصلة من أجل عباد الشمس: رواية ؛ شرفة على الفاكهاني : قصص (Compass of the Sunflower) دار الثقافة الجديدة, 1989
- جحيم ذهبي: قصص (Hell of Gold: stories), دار الاداب، ,1991
- نجوم أريحا (Jericho Stars), دار الهلال،,1993
- زنابق الضوء (Lillies light) 1998 دار شرقيات للنشر واالتوزيع,
Works in English
- A compass for the sunflower, Women's Press, 1989, ISBN 9780704350373
- A Balcony over the Fakihani. Translator Peter Clark, Christopher Tingley. Interlink Books. 1993. ISBN 9781566564649. http://books.google.com/books?id=C6CddnV4CwYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Liy%C4%81nah+Badr%22&hl=en&ei=_Wf_Ta3ENIj30gG-zYHJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- The Stars of Jericho, 1993 [5]
- The Eye of the Mirror, Translator Samira Kawar, Garner, 1994, ISBN 9781859640203; Garnet, 2008, ISBN 9781859642016
Anthologies
Filmography
- Fadwa: A Tale of a Palestinian Poetess. 52 min, 1999.
- Zeitounat. 37 min, 2000.
- The Green Bird. 37 min, 2002.
- Siege ( A Writer's Diary). 33 min. 2003
- The Gates are Open. Sometimes! 2006. 42 min.
- A match on Thursday Afternoon. 2006. 3 min.
- Al QUds – My City . 2010. 52 min [6]
References
Sources
External links
- "Interview with Liana Badr", Nisi Magazine, Moa Geistrand, 26 September 2010
- "Liana Badr Eye of the Mirror", Art and Politics Now, January 31, 2010
- "The Mothers of the Intifada in Liana Badr's Eye of the Mirror", The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 102, Number 4, Fall 2003, pp. 809–823
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Badr, Liana |
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Palestinian novelist and short story writer |
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1950 |
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Jerusalem |
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