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Layla Chaouni
Layla Chaouni, also known as Layla Chaouni Benabdallah, (, born 1953 in Fes, Morocco) is a Moroccan publisher and activist for Human and Women's Rights. She is best known as director of her publishing company '' Éditions Le Fennec'', having published more than 500 titles both in French and Arabic. Life and career Born in 1953, she studied law and first worked for a journal of law, economics and politics at the Mohamed V University's law faculty in Rabat. In 1974, during the reign of King Hassan II of Morocco, she and her husband Mustapha Slimani were arrested and she spent ten days in the torture center of Derb Moulay Cherif in Casablanca. Her husband was only released five years later. In 1987, she created her publishing company ''Éditions Le Fennec'' and became a leading figure in publishing in Morocco. She was the first editor to publish accounts of the Years of Lead, such as Abdelkader Chaoui's ''Dalil al Onfouan'' in 1989, or ''Une femme nommée Rachid'' by Fatna El Boui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatima Mernissi
Fatema Mernissi ( ar, فاطمة مرنيسي, Fāṭima Marnīsī; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Biography Fatema Mernissi was born on 27 September 1940 in Fez, Morocco. She grew up in the harem of her affluent paternal grandmother along with various female kin and servants. She received her primary education in a school established by the nationalist movement, and secondary level education in an all-girls school funded by the French protectorate. In 1957, she studied political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and later at Brandeis University in the US, where she gained her doctorate in 1974. She returned to work at the Mohammed V University in Rabat and taught at the Faculté des Lettres between 1974 and 1981 on subjects such as methodology, family sociology and psychosociology. Further, she was a research scholar at the University Institute for Scientific Research at the same university. Mernissi's ''Beyond the Veil: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Editors
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21st-century Moroccan Women Writers
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Nadia Essalmi
Nadia Essalmi, (; born 1962 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan publisher and writer. Founder of the Yomad publishing house, she is known for her contributions to the promotion of children's literature in Morocco. Since their beginnings in 1998, Essalmi and Yomad have published about 100 stories for children and young readers reflecting Moroccan culture in French, Arabic and the official Berber language Tamazight. Biography Born in 1962, Essalmi practiced gymnastics during her youth and was a member of the country's national team from 1969 to 1974.Deborah Paci, Essalmi, Nadia. (2013) In Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque et Mireille Calle-Gruber (eds.), ''Le diccionaire universel des créatrices'', Paris: Éditions des femmes, pp. 1456-1457 (in French) She studied French literature and taught French at the Hassan-II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute in Rabat. She then coordinated the production of the cultural magazine of the Moroccan Association of Book Professionals (AMP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelkader Retnani
Abdelkader Retnani (; 31 July 1945 – 14 November 2023) was a Moroccan editor, author, and sporting director. He specialized in coffee table books covering a range of subjects, from Berber architecture to Moroccan fauna and the Cuban cigar. He was president of Raja CA from 11 December 1984 to July 1989. Biography Born in Casablanca on 31 July 1945, Retnani became an editor in 1980 and published French-language books in Morocco. He advocated for a policy of book promotion in Morocco, believing it would help the country's youth. In 1992, Retnani joined the board of directors of the Centre africain de formation des éditeurs et libraires. He was the organizer of the Congrès international des études francophones under Hassan II of Morocco. He also served as secretary-general of the ''Association des éditeurs africains francophones''. He was the founding president of the Association marocaine des professionnels du livre. He also directed Éditions La Croisée des chemins and sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Moroccan Writers
This is a list of writers from Morocco. Twentieth century __NOTOC__ A * Eliette Abécassis (born 1969) * Leila Abouzeid (born 1950) * Mohammed Achaari (born 1951) * Said Achtouk (died 1989) * Issa Aït Belize * Lotfi Akalay (1943–2019) * Mohammed Akoujan * Mehdi Akhrif (born 1952) * Mohammed ibn Mohammed Alami (1932–1993) * Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925–2007) * Ahmad al-Tayyeb Aldj (1928–2012) * Tewfik Allal (born 1947) * Farid al-Ansari (1960–2009) * Najib El Aoufi (born 1948) * Robert Assaraf (1936–2018) * Nabil Ayouch (born 1969) * Ali Azaykou (1942–2004) B * * Souad Bahéchar (born 1953) * Latifa Baka (born 1964) * Ahmed Barakat (1960–1994) * Muriel Barbery (born 1969) * Laarbi Batma (1948–1998) * Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani * Abdelmalek Belghiti (1906–2010) * Abdeslam Benabdelali * Abdelkader Benali (born 1975) * Mehdi Ben Barka (1920–1965) * Zoubeir Ben Bouchta * Halima Ben Haddou (born 1954) * Tahar Ben Jelloun (born 1944) * Sih ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Literature
Moroccan literature is the literature produced by people who lived in or were culturally connected to Morocco and the historical states that have existed partially or entirely within the geographical area that is now Morocco. Apart from the various forms of oral literature, the written literature of Morocco encompasses various genres, including poetry, prose, theater, and nonfiction like religious literature. Moroccan literature was and is mainly written in Arabic, however it was also written at a lesser extent in Berber languages, Hebrew, French, and Spanish. Through translations into English and other languages, Moroccan literature originally written in Arabic or one of the other native languages has become accessible to readers worldwide. Most of what is known as Moroccan literature was created since the arrival of Islam in the 8th century, before which native Berber communities primarily had oral literary traditions. Classical antiquity Morocco has been associated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Express
''L'Express'' () is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris. The weekly stands at the political centre in the French media landscape, and has a lifestyle supplement, ''L'Express Styles'', and a job supplement, ''Réussir''. History and profile ''L'Express'' was co-founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, future president of the Radical Party, and Françoise Giroud, who had earlier edited '' ELLE'' and went on to become France's first minister of women's affairs in 1974 and minister of culture in 1976. When founded during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the US magazine ''Time'' and the German magazine '' Der Spiegel''. ''L'Express'' is published weekly. The magazine was supportive of the policies of Pierre Mendès-France in Indochina, and in general had a left-of-centre orientation. The magazine opposed the war in Algeria, and especially the use of torture. In March 1958, as a result of an article of Jean-Paul Sartre reviewing the book '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website since 19 December 1995, and is often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-French-speaking countries. It is considered one of the French newspapers of record, along with ''Libération'', and '' Le Figaro''. It should not be confused with the monthly publication ''Le Monde diplomatique'', of which ''Le Monde'' has 51% ownership, but which is editorially independent. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 in France found that "''Le Monde'' is the most trusted national newspaper". ''Le Monde'' was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
