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Zoe Ferraris moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. She lived in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family, a group of Saudi-Palestinians.
In 2006, she completed her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. Her debut novel, Finding Nouf (published as Night of the Mi'raj in the UK) is now being published in twenty-five countries. A follow-up novel, City of Veils, was released in August, 2010.
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Best-selling author Zoe Ferraris will visit Grand Valley State University's Holland campus on July 25 to speak about her experience living in Saudi Arabia and ...
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Zoë Ferraris, author of Finding Nouf, and City Of Veils, returns with a third novel, Kingdom of Strangers, published last week by Back Bay Books. Set in Jeddah ...
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