PAULINE MOUHANNA KARROUM

BIO

Pauline Mouhanna Karroum is a bilingual journalist and writes frequently in French and English for Jeune Afrique, a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine published in Paris; for l’Orient le Jour, a leading French-language daily newspaper in Lebanon and in Inside Arabia, an online news magazine providing news and analysis of the Middle East and North Africa.  

Her first novel “She Lived in Sandwich” was published in 2020 by les éditions Panthéon, Paris.

She has given French lessons in an American university and in Alliance Française in Atlanta and in Nashville. She also offers private lessons in French with l’Alliance Française in Washington DC. 

Born and raised in Lebanon, Pauline holds a Master’s in Political Science from Saint Joseph University in Beirut, and a Master’s in Information Communication from Paris 2-Assas.
She lived and worked in Paris, France, in 2007, after being granted the Keizo Obuchi award from UNESCO. 

In 2011, she moved to the United States and after Illinois, Georgia and Tennessee, she lives now with her husband and her two children in Washington DC.

 

https://www.paulinemouhannakarroum.com

 

BOOKS

 

Thérèse, Franco-Libanaise vivant à Sandwich, Midwest, a claqué la porte sans se retourner. À trente-sept ans, elle se questionne sur les raisons de son émigration et se demande si elle a fait les bons choix en suivant son mari aux États-Unis, dix ans auparavant. Cet exil, la fondation de sa famille et l’établissement de la réussite de son époux ont longtemps occupé son esprit… Aujourd’hui étreinte par une indicible nostalgie, elle remet tout en question, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire.