Liana Badr

Liana Badr (; born 1950 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Badr is a novelist, story writer, journalist, poet and cinema director. She was raised in Jericho. She studied at the University of Jordan and graduated from the Beirut Arab University in Lebanon with a BA in philosophy and psychology. Badr studied at the Lebanese University. She earned her M.A. from Birzeit University. She lived in Beirut and worked as an editor for Al Hurriyya.

After 1982, she moved to Damascus, Syria, then Tunis, Tunisia, and Amman, Jordan. She returned to Palestine in 1994.

She worked in the Palestinian Ministry of Culture (PMC) as a general director for the Arts. She worked in the Cinematic Archive through their Audiovisual department. She was editor of Dafater Thaqafiyya.

Interviews

Interview with Liana Badr, produced by the PalREAD Ã¢ÂÂ Country of Words project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC)
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Works

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Works in English

A compass for the sunflower, Women's Press, 1989,
The Stars of Jericho, 1993
The Eye of the Mirror, Translator Samira Kawar, Garner, 1994, ; Garnet, 2008,

Anthologies

Articles

Badr, Liana. 2023. The Memories of a Photographic Lens. Journal of Palestine Studies 133, 209-219.
Badr, Liana. 2020. Why Do They Not Accept Beirut to Be Beirut? Journal of Palestine Studies 124, 187-189.

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 Ã¢ÂÂ My City. 2010. 52 min

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. 809Ã¢ÂÂ823