Moroccan Maysoun Douas holds a doctorate in physics, is an entrepreneur in the innovation sector and a municipal councilor in the Madrid city council. With this track record, she is now proof that sometimes things are not what they seem.
The Islamologist and researcher, Asma Lamrabet, calls for the repeal of Article 490 of the Penal Code which punishes extramarital sexual relations. According to her and the "Collective 490", a group that denounces the same article, this text is contrary to the morality of Islam and is not applicable in today’s Morocco.
The Democratic Association of Moroccan Women welcomes the recent judgment by the Court of First Instance in Fès, which condemned the psychological violence exerted by two individuals on a young girl. For the association, this court decision is a "victory".
Life has not really been kind to Meriem, this young woman from Khemisset. Once a French teacher, she has become a homeless person, who spends her nights in a cemetery in Skhirat .
Moroccan MP Itimad Zahidi is no longer in good standing with the PJD. She has resigned from all party bodies, accusing it of showing dictatorship, fraud and lies.
Every year, thousands of Moroccan women travel to Melilla and Ceuta to give birth. The goal: to take advantage of a highly efficient and free health system and ensure Spanish nationality for their newborn.
After two divorces, it is on Instagram that Justin Hartley, the star actor of the family saga "This is us" announced his romantic relationship with Sofia Pernas, an actress of Moroccan origin.
A few years ago, Moroccan viewers were moved by the courage of Zahira, the heroine of the documentary film "On the Way to School". She who should have walked 22 km to get to her school located in the mountains of Imlil, in the Middle Atlas, is now a medical student in Paris.
A Moroccan woman managed to deprive her owners of precious goods worth more than 200,000 euros in the villa where she worked in Platja de Palma (Palma de Mallorca).
The French Minister of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, had announced last September her wish to facilitate naturalization for all foreign workers who remained on the front line during the health crisis. A pharmacist of Moroccan origin has just been naturalized after spending about ten years in France.
Rejected by society, single mothers mostly live in precariousness. Supported by the European Union, the National Institute of Solidarity with Women in Distress (Insaf) is mobilizing to offer them better living conditions.
No Moroccan woman is featured in the latest Forbes magazine ranking of the world’s most powerful women in 2020.