A dialogue with writer and global journalist Kenizé Mourad

4 June 2025. From 18:30 | Presentation | French | IEMed
slideshow image Kenizé Mourad, Turkish-French journalist writer in front of his great-grandfather, the Ottoman Sultan Murad V, at his home in Istanbul. March 11, 2024. Author: Ilya U. Topper

The Turkish-French writer Kenizé Mourad will present the Spanish two of her books in Barcelona in a dialogue with journalist Joan Roura.

Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad (born 11 November 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.

It will be a great opportunity to meet and listen to this renowned author.

The books published in Spanish are:
El perfume de nuestra tierra
En el país de los puros

Speakers


Speaker

Kenizé Mourad

Writer
Senén Florensa
Welcome remarks

Senén Florensa

Executive President IEMed
Moderator

Joan Roura

Journalist

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