Liana Badr

Liana Badr
Born
Jericho
EducationM.A from Birzeit University. B.A in Philosophy and Psychology from Beirut Arab University.
Alma materBirzeit University and Beirut Arab University

Liana Badr (Arabic: ليانة بدر) (born 1950 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian novelist, and short story writer.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

After 1982, she moved to Damascus, Syria, then Tunis, Tunisia, and Amman, Jordan. She returned to Palestine in 1994.[4]

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.[5]

Interviews

  • Interview with Liana Badr, produced by the PalREAD – Country of Words project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC)[6]
  • حوار مع الكاتبة والشاعرة والمخرجة ليانة بدر، انتاج مشروع ممول من البحث العلمي الاوروبي [7]

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 (Lilies light) 1998 دار شرقيات للنشر واالتوزيع,

Works in English

  • A compass for the sunflower, Women's Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-7043-5037-3
  • A Balcony over the Fakihani. Translator Peter Clark, Christopher Tingley. Interlink Books. 1993. ISBN 978-1-56656-464-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • The Stars of Jericho, 1993 [8]
  • The Eye of the Mirror, Translator Samira Kawar, Garner, 1994, ISBN 978-1-85964-020-3; Garnet, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85964-201-6

Anthologies

  • Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed. (2005). "Colors". Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13254-1.
  • Denys Johnson-Davies, ed. (2006). "from The Land of Stone and Thyme". The Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-7976-6.
  • "March of the Dinosaurs". Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Random House Digital, Inc. 2011. ISBN 978-0-307-58883-8.

Articles

  • Badr, Liana. 2023. The Memories of a Photographic Lens. Journal of Palestine Studies 133, 209-219. [9]
  • Badr, Liana. 2020. Why Do They Not Accept Beirut to Be Beirut? Journal of Palestine Studies 124, 187-189.[10]

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 [11]

References

  1. ^ http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/liana_badr.html
  2. ^ "Literature - Novelist - Liana Badr". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
  3. ^ منتدى الكتاب العربي, Arab World Books. "Liana Badr". www.arabworldbooks.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  4. ^ "100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2011 - ArabianBusiness.com". Archived from the original on 2011-04-08.
  5. ^ "The English Pen Online World Atlas - Liana Badr". Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
  6. ^ "EP1: Liana Badr". www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de (Podcast). 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  7. ^ "الحلقة الأولى: ليانة بدر". www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de (Podcast). 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  8. ^ "Literature - Novelist - Liana Badr". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
  9. ^ Badr, Liana (2023). "The Memories of a Photographic Lens". Journal of Palestine Studies. 133: 209–219.
  10. ^ Badr, Liana (2020). "Why Do They Not Accept Beirut to Be Beirut?". Journal of Palestine Studies. 124: 187–189.
  11. ^ "Liana Badr". arabwomenwriters.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-11.

Sources

  • Brinda J. Mehta (2007). "Palestinian Women and the Problematics of Survival". Rituals of memory: in contemporary Arab women's writing. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3135-4.
  • Lisa Suhair Majaj; Paula W. Sunderman; Therese Saliba, eds. (2002). Intersections: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2951-1.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Liana Badr.
  • "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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