Liana Badr Explained

Liana Badr
Birth Place:	Jericho
Education:	M.A from Birzeit University. B.A in Philosophy and Psychology from Beirut Arab University.
Alma Mater:	Birzeit 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,
• Book: A Balcony over the Fakihani. 1993. . Christopher Tingley. Interlink Books. 978-1-56656-464-9.
• The Stars of Jericho, 1993 ^[8]
• The Eye of the Mirror, Translator Samira Kawar, Garner, 1994, ; Garnet, 2008,

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=sQxyAQUpFCEC&q=Liana+Badr&pg=PA219. Colors. Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology . Salma Khadra Jayyusi . Salma Jayyusi . Columbia University Press. 2005. 978-0-231-13254-1 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=ILrchPADfiAC&q=Liana+Badr&pg=PA44. from The Land of Stone and Thyme. The Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction. Denys Johnson-Davies. Random House Digital, Inc.. 2006. 978-1-4000-7976-6.
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=eVPRlg26a8kC&q=Liana+Badr&pg=PA362. March of the Dinosaurs. Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . Random House Digital, Inc.. 2011. 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]

Sources

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=peBcB4TJudYC&q=Liana+Badr&pg=PA28. Palestinian Women and the Problematics of Survival. Rituals of memory: in contemporary Arab women's writing. Brinda J. Mehta. Syracuse University Press. 2007. 978-0-8156-3135-4.
• Book: Intersections: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels. Lisa Suhair Majaj . Paula W. Sunderman . Therese Saliba . Syracuse University Press. 2002. 978-0-8156-2951-1 .

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Liana Badr.
2. Web site: Literature - Novelist - Liana Badr . 2011-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110812193043/http://www.sakakini.org/literature/novelists.htm . 2011-08-12 .
3. Web site: منتدى الكتاب العربي . Arab World Books . Liana Badr . 2024-03-06 . www.arabworldbooks.com.
4. Web site: 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2011 - ArabianBusiness.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110408112524/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/100-most-powerful-arab-women-2011-384182.html?view=profile&itemid=383828. 2011-04-08.
5. Web site: The English Pen Online World Atlas - Liana Badr . 2011-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111006035938/http://penatlas.org/online/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=16 . 2011-10-06 .
6. Web site: 2023-06-01 . EP1: Liana Badr . 2024-03-06 . www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de . en . Podcast.
7. Web site: 2023-06-01 . الحلقة الأولى: ليانة بدر . 2024-03-06 . www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de . en . Podcast.
8. Web site: Literature - Novelist - Liana Badr . 2011-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927184630/http://www.sakakini.org/literature/lianatranslation.htm . 2011-09-27 .
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. Web site: Liana Badr . arabwomenwriters.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110811162645/http://arabwomenwriters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=53 . 2011-08-11.