A strong Muslim Indian woman who stands against British colonialist in 19th century India is the dynamic of the latest novel by the granddaughter of Ottoman Sultan Murad V. Kenize Mourad’s “In the ...

MEE speaks to Mourad, a Legion d’Honneur award recipient for her writing, on her extraordinary life and family history In 1945, an Indian prince sent two women to a convent in France to find his young ...

Kenize Mourad, while researching for her book ‘In the City of Gold and Silver’, came across references to Begum Hazrat Mahal in documents written by the British. They referred to her as the ‘soul of ...

“My mother was very beautiful” she says, wistful longing flitting across her luminous eyes. Yet the only memories that Kenize Mourad have of her mother are those gleaned from other people — her mother ...

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