Kenizé Mourad will tour in India on the occasion of the publication of the English translation of her book Dans la ville d'or et d'argent (Robert Laffont, 2010) by Full Circle.
She will be touring various cities including Bombay, Pune, New Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad, etc.). Kenizé Mourad was born to an Indian father and a Turkish mother and has spent most of her career with the French political magazine “Le Nouvel Observateur” for whom she covered the Iranian revolutions and the Lebanese civil war. Her last novel Dans la ville d'or et d'argent will be published as an English translation by Full Circle by the end of 2012.
Her book entitled Regards from the Dead Princess was based on the true story of her mother Selma, an Ottoman princess and granddaughter of the last Sultan of Turkey. It was a successful portrayal of Lebanese and Indian society between the wars.
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