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Finding Home: From Cairo to New York
352 pages, Paperback
Published December 20, 2024
About the author
Djenane Nakhle
2 books3 followersDjenane Nakhle, PhD, is a Lebanese-American psychologist licensed in New York and Connecticut, co-host of the Empowered Women Book Club, and the author of Finding Home: From Cairo to New York. Her life journey spans four continents. Fluent in four languages, she brings multicultural insight, clinical depth, and emotional attunement to both her writing and her professional work.
A Valedictorian of NYU’s School of Education, federally funded researcher and grant recipient, and former Director of Therapeutics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Nakhle also served as an NYU Adjunct Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, teaching trauma-focused graduate seminars. With nearly thirty years of clinical experience, her work centers on resilience, identity, and helping individuals—especially women—claim their voice with clarity and strength.
An award-winning author, Dr. Nakhle traces in Finding Home: From Cairo to New York an immigrant woman’s coming of age in a Catholic, patriarchal society as she moves across cultures through marriage, motherhood, love, and divorce—guided by determination and self-reclamation, and sustained by an enduring “I can do it” spirit. At the memoir’s core is a steadfast belief in women’s agency: the right to define themselves, speak truthfully, and be heard.
Finding Home has earned multiple honors, including #1 New Release in Amazon’s Emigration & Immigration category and #1 in Mid-Atlantic Memoirs. It is a Spring and Fall PenCraft Book Award winner, received a 5-Star Readers’ Favorite rating, and was named a 2026 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite (Memoir).
Editorial reviews praise the memoir as “a modern odyssey” shaped by courage and empathy and “eloquent and rich with historical detail.” Readers describe it as “impossible to put down” and “a truly inspiring read.”
Finding Home will resonate with anyone who has searched for belonging across borders, endured hardship with courage, sought meaning amid uncertainty, or reinvented themselves in a new life—and with readers who enjoyed Educated and The Glass Castle.
“We each have a path to follow at our own pace and time. I hope reading about my journey inspires you with your own.”
—Djenane Nakhle, PhD
A Valedictorian of NYU’s School of Education, federally funded researcher and grant recipient, and former Director of Therapeutics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Nakhle also served as an NYU Adjunct Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, teaching trauma-focused graduate seminars. With nearly thirty years of clinical experience, her work centers on resilience, identity, and helping individuals—especially women—claim their voice with clarity and strength.
An award-winning author, Dr. Nakhle traces in Finding Home: From Cairo to New York an immigrant woman’s coming of age in a Catholic, patriarchal society as she moves across cultures through marriage, motherhood, love, and divorce—guided by determination and self-reclamation, and sustained by an enduring “I can do it” spirit. At the memoir’s core is a steadfast belief in women’s agency: the right to define themselves, speak truthfully, and be heard.
Finding Home has earned multiple honors, including #1 New Release in Amazon’s Emigration & Immigration category and #1 in Mid-Atlantic Memoirs. It is a Spring and Fall PenCraft Book Award winner, received a 5-Star Readers’ Favorite rating, and was named a 2026 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite (Memoir).
Editorial reviews praise the memoir as “a modern odyssey” shaped by courage and empathy and “eloquent and rich with historical detail.” Readers describe it as “impossible to put down” and “a truly inspiring read.”
Finding Home will resonate with anyone who has searched for belonging across borders, endured hardship with courage, sought meaning amid uncertainty, or reinvented themselves in a new life—and with readers who enjoyed Educated and The Glass Castle.
“We each have a path to follow at our own pace and time. I hope reading about my journey inspires you with your own.”
—Djenane Nakhle, PhD
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