Liana Badr


Liana Badr 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 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 – Country of Words project, funded by the European Research Council
  • حوار مع الكاتبة والشاعرة والمخرجة ليانة بدر، انتاج مشروع ممول من البحث العلمي الاوروبي

Works

  • بوصلة من أجل عباد الشمس: رواية ؛ شرفة على الفاكهاني : قصص دار الثقافة الجديدة, 1989
  • جحيم ذهبي: قصص, دار الاداب،, 1991
  • نجوم أريحا, دار الهلال،,1993
  • زنابق الضوء 1998 دار شرقيات للنشر واالتوزيع,

Works in English

Articles

Filmography