Hala El Badry

Hala El Badry (born 1954 in Cairo), 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. 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