Liana Badr

Liana Badr (born 1950 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian novelist, and short story writer.

Quotes

 * Three cities run in my veins: Jerusalem, which I consider to be the place of my soul’s identity and existence; Jericho, the city that colors my heart and my passion; and Hebron, which I believe is the source of my creative imagination and my personal archive of popular folk tales, like those about Al-Shater Hassan.
 * Interview with Words Without Borders (2016) Translated from the Arabic by Suja Sawafta.

Interview (2010)

 * If you look for them, you can find hero’s everywhere, in ordinary people.


 * I’m interested in finding the relation between war and the human being. The beauty of the small pleasures in life, subtle things.


 * My project is to rewrite the palestinian history through the eyes of women.


 * (about Fadwa Tuqan) one of the most important poets of Palestine. She wrote a book that is like the bible of the palestinian feminist movement. When she was 12 years old a boy threw flowers on her. Her brother saw it, and it was a big crisis for her family. They told her ”You will stay in the house until you die.” Her brother Ibrahim Toquan was one of the best poets in Palestine at the time. He didn’t let her out of the house, but he taught her to write. After 20 years of house arrest she left the house. She was a rebel, and she established the poetry of love and loneliness in Palestine.


 * I believe the image is what can unite the world.