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Sanaa El Aji
Sanaa El Aji (b. in 1977 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan sociologist, writer, and journalist. Biography Sanaa El Aji was born in 1977 in Casablanca to a modest family in a working-class neighborhood. The first of ten siblings, El Aji began her career as a journalist for ''Nichane'' magazine, a Moroccan Arabic version of the French-language magazine ''TelQuel''. She edited the weekly article ''Batoul'' between September 2006 and October 2010 and continued her work as a liberated and divorced young woman in opposition to social conventions. In 2006 El Aji was at the center of a scandal when in one of her articles, the Moroccan ''humor'', she wrote jokes that were offensive to religious sensibilities. El Aji and editor-in-chief Driss Ksikes were sentenced to three years, and their magazine was suspended by a court in Casablanca for denigrating Islam. The two received death threats following an aggressive report against them on national television networks. El Aji said she did not int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Aix-Marseille
Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as ) is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of Provence, making it one of the oldest university-level institutions in the Francophone world. The institution came into its current form following a reunification of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University. The reunification became effective on 1 January 2012, resulting in the creation of the largest university in the French-speaking world in terms of its student body, its faculty and staff, and its budget that currently stands at €750 million. The university is organized around five main campuses situated in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. Apart from its major campuses, AMU owns and operates facilities in Arles, Aubagne, Avignon, Digne-les-Bains, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Terrab
Sonia Terrab (born 1985) is a Moroccan writer, filmmaker, and activist. Her work revolves around the status of women in Moroccan society, social hypocrisy regarding the body and sexuality, and Moroccan youth. Biography Terrab was born in Meknes, Morocco. After graduating high school, she moved to France, where she studied political science and communications. She is an alumna of the American University of Paris. She published her first novel, ''Shamablanca'', in 2011, followed by ''La révolution n'a pas eu lieu'' in 2015. In 2016, Terrab released her first film, ''Shakespeare in Casablanca,'' a documentary''.'' The following year, she would release a web series, ''Marokkiates'', elevating the voices of Moroccan women. In 2020, she released her second documentary: ''L7sla'' (''The Dead End''), a one-year immersion with marginalized youth of a popular neighborhood of Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Women Writers
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Hajar Raissouni
Hajar Raissouni (; born 1991) is an independent Moroccan journalist. In 2019, she was arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for allegedly having an illegal abortion and sex out of wedlock, though she was later pardoned by King Mohammed VI. Early life and career Hajar was born in 1991 in Larache, Morocco. She grew up in a conservative family. Her father was a farmer and her mother is a housewife. She received a traditional religious education and chose to wear the hijab as a teenager. After getting her baccalaureate, she moved to Salé in 2009 and enrolled at the Faculty of Sciences in Rabat. After a bachelor's degree in mathematics, she changed her path and choose to be a journalist. She enrolled in law school and then in political science while publishing her first articles in Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, a left-wing Arabic-language daily. At the time, Hajar was close to the (MUR) created by her uncle Ahmad al-Raysuni. She was hired at '' Attajdid'', the daily newspaper of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakima El Haite
Hakima El Haite (born 13 May 1963) is a Moroccan climate scientist, entrepreneur and politician. In 1994 she founded EauGlobe, the first environmental engineering firm in the MENA region. She served as minister delegate in charge of the environment for the Kingdom of Morocco from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, she was elected vice president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP21). She was appointed special envoy for climate change of the Kingdom of Morocco from 2015 to 2017 and the high level climate champion of the United Nations International Climate Conference (COP22) from 2016 to 2017. She was the president of the Liberal International since December 2018 until December 2024. the first non-European in this post. Early life and education El Haite was born in Fez on 13 May 1963. She has a degree in biology and microbiology from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez (1986), a postgraduate degree in ecotoxicology from Moulay Ismail University in Meknes (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
