Hala El Badry

Hala El Badry, born in Cairo in 1954, a graduate of Cairo University, is an Egyptian journalist and novelist. She is deputy editor of an Egyptian radio and television magazine.

Muntaha, a novel published in 1995, is set in the fictional village of Muntaha in the Nile Delta.^[1] Imra'atun ma (A Certain Woman), Hala El Badry's fourth book, was named best novel of 2001 at the Cairo International Book Fair.

Works

• Muntaha. 1995
  • Muntaha. Translated by Nancy Roberts. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006. ISBN 978-977-416-005-9 Selected pages
• Imra'atun ma. 2001
  • A Certain Woman. Translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2003. ISBN 978-977-416-028-8; London: Arabia Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-906697-07-5 Selected pages

Notes

1. Review at greenmanreview.com