By Youssef El  Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, June 20, 2013 French feminism seems to be absent from the scene when a Muslim veiled woman is attacked or harassed. It’s a double standards game that makes feminism’s principle of women liberation and emancipation highly questionable. In its broadest definition, feminism is a social, political and philosophical movement for the emancipation and liberation of wome ...

By Erin Geneva Morocco World News Rabat, June 18, 2013 Dear Smiling man. I had been here in Morocco for a few weeks when I briefly encountered you. By the time I met you, I am sorry to say that I was more hostile than I would have been if I had met you just after arriving. Smiling man, I have only good things to say about most people I have met in Morocco. But, I do have one complaint, and this is that I ha ...

By Erin Geneva Morocco World News Rabat, June 14, 2013 As an international volunteer, I am very grateful to be accommodated by a lovely Moroccan host family. They have been very generous and taken me a few different places. Last weekend, we visited a farm where several guests were served a fancy lunch in a big tent. Besides the entire sheep carcasses served on giant platters, and the experience of being ser ...

By Youssef Harrak Morocco World News Oujda, Morocco, June 13, 2013 Feminism in North Africa, as I have claimed in the title, is a sort of ideological principles. Even the epithet of feminism reflects a certain ideology; it evokes strong emotional responses which might be developed into a set of ideas or political demands. This can be noticed clearly in the current hard-talk which is launched by feminists. P ...

  By Youssef Sourgo Morocco world news Casablanca, June 10, 2013 There exists a plurality of approaches to the veil worn by Muslim women. For some Western feminists, the veil is emblematic of Muslim women’s oppression and marginalization. It symbolizes inequality, subservience and backwardness, characteristics that are for those feminists typical of all Muslim societies. The feminists who hold this view are ...

June 10, 2013 A 13-year-old Egyptian girl has died while being circumcised at a private village in the Daqahliya governorate north east of Cairo, Egyptian media reported on Sunday. “We left our daughter with the doctor and the nurse. 15 minutes later, the nurse took my daughter out of the operation room to a nearby room, along with three other girls whom the doctor was circumcising,” Mohammed Ibrahim, a far ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, June 10, 2013 According to the ministry of justice, the number of divorce cases filed in 2011 reached 56 198cases. An estimated rate of 59 % divorce cases were filed by women. The main reasons behind women’s decision to terminate their marriage are inadequate financial support, physical abuse, lack of communication or sexual dissatisfaction. The same statistics ...

By Omar Bihmidine Morocco World News Sidi Ifni, Morocco, June 6, 2013 Co-habitation is, by definition, the act of choosing to live together and have a sexual relationship with one's partner without being legally married. This choice, some Moroccan argue, should be their inalienable right. In an interview with France 24, Sanae El Aaji, a Moroccan blogger, argues that since marriage doesn't necessarily lead t ...

Washington, June 6, 2013 Yasmina Mrabet, Connection Point Director of Peace For Peace, interviewed Moroccan-American Media Producer Zeen Rachidi, a member of the team that created Legend of the Cipher, the first hip hop card game.  Zeen shares his perspective on how women are portrayed in the gaming and hip hop industries, and how this card game provides a platform for dialogue and social change. Can you sh ...

By Laura Dimon Morocco World News New York, June 03, 2013 After extensive hair, makeup, and wardrobe preparations, male actor Waleed Hammad, 24, walked the streets of Cairo dressed as a woman. He wore a long skirt and long sleeves, and at times donned the hijab as well. He had another accessory in tow: a hidden camera crew. The purpose of Hammad’s experiment, conducted with Egyptian television station ONTV ...

By Sara el Bekri Morocco World News Casablanca, June 3, 2013 Bribery in Morocco is experienced, seen or heard of on a daily basis. We know it is wrong but we never really try to put an end to it. We rather turn our eyes away from this terrible phenomenon that keeps destroying our social life. We pretend not to see it and we just let it happen. I find it extremely saddening that a citizen is usually unable t ...

By Yousef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, May 30, 2013 Following the remarkable increase in female labor force in Saudi Arabia, and the slight flexibility showed by the conservative government towards working women, a Saudi “self-help” writer wrote an Arabic hash-tag on his Twitter account translated by most news outlets as "#harass_female_cashiers." Abdullah Mohammed Daoud seems to encourage his 97,000 Tw ...