Kenizé Mourad

After her mother died in poverty when she was two years old, she was brought up in a Catholic environment by a French family.

[3] In 1970, upon graduating from the Sorbonne with a degree in Sociology and Psychology, she became a reporter for Le Nouvel Observateur in the Middle East, covering the Iranian revolution and the war in Lebanon.

"My work was never openly rejected," she explained, "but instead I would be told 'The article is too long' or the story would be delayed constantly until I gave up.

[6] After further research in India, she continued the story of her family in Les jardins de Badalpour, published in 1998 and subsequently translated into 12 languages.

[1] 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[7] and In the city of silver and gold: the story of Begum Hazrat Mahal.