Soukaina Boutiyeb is a Casablanca native. When she was 14, she left the Kingdom with her family to settle down in Canada. She is currently the Executive Director of Alliance des Femmes Francophonie Canadienne, an organization that aims at protecting the contribution of Francophone women in their communities and preserving their right to live and fully flourish in French.
Anti-Israel groups are once again angered by the participation of an Israeli filmmaker to one of Morocco's most known festivals. Organizers of the International Women Film Festival of Sale invited Simone Bitton, an Israeli-French documentary filmmaker of Moroccan descent.
While the General Directorate of Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) has denied the circulating news suggesting that a hunger strike has been initiated by several Hirak detainees, the Moroccan Observatory of Prisons declared on Monday that the health of prisoners in the local prison in Ain Sbaa, Casablanca is deteriorating. Meanwhile, demonstrations and arrests have been resumed in the Rif province as the trial of activist Nawal Ben Aissa is scheduled for the 23rd of October.