Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, is a French journalist and novelist.

Born on 11 November 1939, she worked as a reporter for the Nouvel Observateur, focusing on the Middle East until 1983. She later transitioned to literature, where she gained fame with her international best-seller De la part de la princesse morte (Regards from the Dead Princess) in 1987, which tells the story of her family. Her literary work Les jardins de Badalpour followed in 1998, further exploring her family history.

Born to a Turkish princess and an Indian rajah, she was orphaned shortly after birth and raised in a Catholic environment in Paris. Her heritage led her to explore Islam through the texts of great Sufis at the age of 20, discovering Islam as an open and tolerant religion. She perceives her Muslim identity as 'an affiliation more than a religion'.