Liana Badr was born in Jerusalem in 1950, two years after the founding of the State of Israel. After the 1967 war, in which Israel occupied most of Palestine, including the holy city, he went with his family to Jordan, where he studied, and then to Lebanon, where he graduated in Philosophy and Psychology. Like many Palestinians, his life was full of struggle, exile and dispossession, and this is reflected in his novels, poetry and documentaries.
Since the 90s he has lived in Ramallah, the main city of the occupied West Bank and headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority. Between 1996 and 2004 he served as Director General of Arts at the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, which is part of the authority. In the occupied territory where the author has lived for the past 30 years—fragmented by Israeli settlements, roads and checkpoints—Badr denounced that “Israel is committing sociocide.”