Kenize Mourad

Kenize Mourad was born to an Indian father and a Turkish mother and has spent most of her professional career at the French political magazine Le Nouvel Observateur for whom she covered the Iranian revolutions and the Lebanese civil war. She has also written two successful novels including Regards from the Dead Princess, based on the true story of her mother Selma, an Ottoman princess and granddaughter of the last Sultan of Turkey. She now lives in Istanbul.