Kenizé Mourad
Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, (born 1939) is a French journalist and novelist. Until 1983, she was a reporter for the ''Nouvel Observateur'' working in the Middle East. She then turned to literature, publishing the international best-seller ''De la part de la princesse morte'' (''Regards from the Dead Princess'') in 1987 which told the story of her family. ''Les jardins de Badalpour'', further documenting her family history, followed in 1998. Biography Born in Paris in November 1939, Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara is the daughter of Selma Hanımsultan, who was the daughter of Hatice Sultan (daughter of Murad V), Hatice Sultan and the grand-daughter of Murad V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Her father was the Indian Raja of Kotwara, Sajid Husain Zaidi. After her mother died in poverty when she was only a two years old, she was brought up in a Catholic environment by a French family. Kenizé chose to use the name Mourad in honour of her great grandfath ...
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