Anissa M. Bouziane

About The Author

Anissa N. Bouziane was born in Tennessee, daughter of a Moroccan father and a French mother. She grew up in Morocco, but returned to the US to attend Wellesley College, and went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. The book is rooted in the author's experience of witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers. She now works and teaches in Paris.

Books by Anissa M. Bouziane

Dune Song
By Anissa M. Bouziane
Translated by Paula Haydar
“I came to the Sahara to be buried.” After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and her American dream destroyed. She returns to Morocco to make her home with a family that’s not her own. Healed by their ki...
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