Egyptian Social Media Campaign Targets Moroccan Women as ’Husband Stealers’

Moroccan women are the target of a real witch hunt in Egypt. The rumors say that they would travel to Egypt with the sole purpose of "marrying Egyptian men they meet on the internet", reports Hespress. Faced with the campaign of denigration, many Moroccan women married to Egyptians have reacted by creating their own YouTube channels to counter the videos that are being disseminated and that undermine their reputation. "We are against all kinds of attacks on the dignity of women in general and Moroccan women," said Latifa Bouchoua, president of the Federation of Women’s Rights Leagues.

She also calls on the women who have been dragged through the mud to break their silence in order to seek redress from the justice system for the inconveniences and damages that these kinds of campaigns may have caused. Faced with the problems raised by mixed marriages, "the Moroccan justice system is considering tightening the conditions authorizing these marriages", in order to better protect Moroccans who wish to marry foreigners and the children who will be born of these couples.

On this issue, Mohamed Abdennabaoui, president of the public prosecutor’s office, has sent a memorandum to the first prosecutors near the Court of Cassation and to all the public prosecutors and judges of all the courts of the Kingdom, calling on them to "treat with caution" the various requests relating to mixed marriage. He draws particular attention to the difficulties that have been recorded in the past. These are the conditions and administrative procedures for the stay of the Moroccan woman who joins her husband in his country of origin, in addition to the issues concerning the interests of the children.