Latifa Akherbach (َ, – 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.
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 of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...
of Rabat" () and in 2003, she was appointed by King
Mohammed VI as the head the "Higher Institute of Information and Communication"
ISIC, then in 2007 as co-CEO of the
SNRT (), heading the Moroccan state radio.
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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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See also
*Cabinet of Morocco
The Cabinet of Morocco is the chief executive body of the Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco.
The Cabinet is composed of some 24 ministers including 5 "Minister Delegates". It is headed by the Prime Minister of Morocco, Prime Minister since August 2011, ...
References
1960 births
Living people
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
Moroccan journalists
Moroccan women journalists
Moroccan radio journalists
Moroccan women radio journalists
Ambassadors of Morocco to Bulgaria
People from Tétouan
Moroccan educators
Moroccan women educators
Moroccan writers in French
Knights of the Legion of Honour
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