Badiah Kashgari

Badiah Kashgari is a Saudi poet born in Taif in 1954. She took a BA in English literature at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah (1977) and a master's in educational psychology at the University of Oklahoma, taught in Taif and Jeddah, and worked for Saudi Aramco in Dhahran from 1978, editing Arabic publications in its public relations department from 1989 until her resignation in 1999. ¹ She later lived for a time in Canada and has published several collections of poetry. ¹

Kashgari was born and raised in Taif; the Arabic article pairs her birth year of 1954 with 1374 AH, and Wikidata agrees on 1954. ^{1 2} Beyond Jeddah and Oklahoma she took a diploma in technical translation at Oxford in 1990 and studied curriculum and examination writing at Princeton in 1985–86, alongside training courses taken through Aramco in the United States, Britain and Spain. ¹ At Aramco she edited the Arabic publications of the public relations department, among them the monthly magazine Al-Qafila, and after resigning in 1999 she spent a year in Canada, began a literary project in Bahrain, and settled in Jeddah, where she continues to write. ¹ The sources name no religion for Kashgari, so the museum records none. ^{1 2}

Kashgari has published several printed collections of poetry, among them Ala Shawati min Dimana. ¹ She contributed to Saudi newspapers and magazines, including Okaz, took part in poetry evenings inside the kingdom and abroad, and was a founding member of the Al-Arba'iyyat forum in Dammam and a member of the Association of Saudi Women Writers. ¹ Writing in Al-Jazirah in 2007, a critic praised the architecture of her texts, built on a rhythmic structure touched with longing and sorrow. ¹

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