Early Life
Khouri was born in Jordan in 1970, and in 1973 she moved to Chicago in the United States with her parents. She attended a Catholic school in South Chicago. In 1993 she married John Toliopoulos, the father of her two children, Zoe and Christopher. Circa 2001, Khouri, Toliopoulos and their children moved to Australia, from where she published a supposedly non-fiction account of the honour killing of her best friend in Jordan. After the revelation of her literary hoax made headline news, she moved back to the United States. She is the subject of the acclaimed 2007 film Forbidden Lie$.
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