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 978-0-7043-5037-3
- A Balcony over the Fakihani. Translator Peter Clark, Christopher Tingley. Interlink Books. 1993. ISBN 978-1-56656-464-9.
- The Stars of Jericho, 1993 [5]
- 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.
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
- ^ http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/liana_badr.html
- ^ http://www.sakakini.org/literature/novelists.htm
- ^ http://www.arabianbusiness.com/100-most-powerful-arab-women-2011-384182.html?view=profile&itemid=383828
- ^ http://penatlas.org/online/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=16
- ^ http://www.sakakini.org/literature/lianatranslation.htm
- ^ http://arabwomenwriters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=53
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, ed. (2002). Intersections: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 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
