Sacred Lands: Conversation with Kenize Mourad

Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, is a French journalist and novelist, living between Paris and Istanbul.

Prodigious writer and voice of courage, she brings light to Truth, the meaning of home, the sense of lineage.  

Invoking her path as her heritage, her words activates the core of ourselves. 

She tells her story for Garden and the Moon.

Kenize Mourad is the author of the international best-seller De la part de la princesse morte (Regards from the Dead Princess) in 1987 which tells the story of her family. 

It has been translated into 34 languages with English versions titled Memoirs of an Ottoman Princess and Regards from the Dead Princess. 

She continued the story of her family in Les jardins de Badalpour, published in 1998 and subsequently translated into 12 languages.

More recently, she has published Le parfum de notre terre : Voix de Palestine et d'Israël (2003) and Dans la ville d'or et d'argent (2010), translated into English as Our sacred land: voices of the Palestine-Israeli conflict and In the city of silver and gold: the story of Begum Hazrat Mahal.