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 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, then Tunis, and Amman. 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.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,
- 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
Filmography
- Fadwa: A Tale of a Palestinian Poetess. 52 min, 1999.
- Zeitounat. 37 min, 2000.
- The Green Bird. 37 min, 2002.
- Siege . 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
