The American writer Kate Chopin wrote a short story entitled "La Belle Zoraïde", in which Zoraïde, a beautiful mixed-race slave, is driven by her mistress to marry another mulatto whereas she fell in love with the handsome ink-black Mézor.
Zoraida di Granata (also Zoraide di Granata or Zoraïda di Granata) is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or 'heroic' opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti.