Latifa Akherbach (َ, ar, لطيفة أخرباش – born 1960 in Tetouan) is a Moroccan politician and journalist. Between 2007 and 2012, she was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of

Abbas El Fassi Abbas El Fassi (; ar, عباس الفاسي; born 18 September 1940) was Moroccan politician and businessman, prime minister of Morocco from 19 September 2007 to 29 November 2011. El Fassi, a member of the Istiqlal Party, replaced independent D ...

. Latifa Akherbach started her career in 1981 as a journalist in the daily "Al Maghrib" and "La Vie Eco" magazine. Sometime in the late 1990s she taught at the "Higher Institute of

Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (pro ...

of Rabat" (french: Institut Supérieur de Journalisme de Rabat) and in 2003, she was appointed by King

Mohammed VI Muhammad VI may refer to: * Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI (1868–1932), sultan of the Maldives from 1893 to 1902 * Mehmed VI (1861–1926), sultan of Ottoman Empire, from 1918 to 1922 * Mohammed VI of Morocco Mohammed VI ( ar, محمد الساد ...

as the head the "Higher Institute of Information and Communication" (french: l'Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication}
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, then in 2007 as co-CEO of the

SNRT The National Company of Radio and Television ( ar, الشَرِكَة الوَطَنِيَّة لِلْإِذَاعَة وَالتَلْفَزَة, ''; french: Société nationale de radiodiffusion et de télévision, SNRT''; , ') is the public b ...

(), heading the Moroccan state radio. Akherbach co-authored two books in French about women rights; "Women and Media" (''Femmes et médias'') and "Women and Politics" (''Femmes et politique'').

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Women government ministers of Morocco 1960 births Living people Moroccan journalists Moroccan women journalists Moroccan radio journalists Moroccan women radio journalists People from Tétouan Moroccan educators Moroccan women educators Moroccan writers in French {{Morocco-politician-stub

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