In an attempt to fight against verbal abuse, the Jossour Forum for Moroccan Women launched an initiative that targets popular proverbs, dubbed sexist. In partnership with the University of Maryland, the association wants to expose some of the Moroccan sayings that discriminate against women and treat them in an inferior way. «We have been in touch with forty women leaders to fight against violence and to show that abuse can take several forms, which in this case is purely verbal»,
The Moroccan Caftan has been at the spotlight at the «Morocco in Abu Dhabi», an event currently held in Abu Dhabi. Moroccan designers were invited to the event, expected to wrap up on April 30, to showcase their creations, focusing on the Moroccan Caftan. Models dressed in Caftans walked the runaway, highlighting the latest trends. «The Caftan has been passed down through many generations. This year, we decided to focus on the traditional Moroccan arts of sewing and
«Contemporary Muslim Fashions», an exhibition dedicated to Muslim women and their fashion, is opening soon in Frankfurt, Germany, where it had already stirred controversy, French weekly Le Point reports. After it was shown at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, the exhibition has been making headlines in Germany days before its opening. In an article entitled «Tolerance makes us blind», German platform Frankfurter Allgemeine slammed the exhibition
Halima Embarek Warzazi is a Moroccan diplomat with the longest-running career in the United Nations. The Casablanca-native dedicated her life to the cause of women in Morocco and in the United States. Warzazi’s exciting journey as a diplomat started when she 14 years old. Daughter of a Casablanca businessman, the young woman was sent to Egypt to study in a French school. She spent ten years in the North African country, where she attended the Cairo University. In 1957, Warzazi graduated
For the second time, in less than two months, the Duchess of Cornwall wore a Moroccan Caftan. According to Hello Magazine, Princess Camilla attended, Wednesday evening, an early St Patrick's Day dinner at the embassy of Ireland in London, wearing the same green dress she pulled out during a grand event hosted by her husband Prince Charles at the Buckingham in February. She teamed the sparkly Caftan with «nude high heels and accessorized with simple drop earrings», wrote the
While visiting Morocco alongside her husband, Meghan Markle discovered a local shoe brand that can be considered now as one of the Duchess of Sussex’s favorite footwear labels. Meeting social entrepreneurs, Monday in Rabat, the Princess stumbled upon the founders of Zyne, a Moroccan footwear brand created by designer Zineb Britel. Impressed by the brand’s ability to employ local women, Meghan Markle chose two pairs of of Zyne’s shoes to bring back with her to London.
For its 2019 spring and summer collection campaign, Spanish fast fashion retailer Zara was inspired by Morocco. In a video entitled «Woman Campaign Spring Summer 2019» and published earlier this month on Youtube, Zara showcased the essential pieces it designed for its customers this season. Most of these pieces of clothing are inspired by Morocco. The models are wearing lightweight Caftans and hanging out in a tent erected in the middle of the Sahara. One of Zara’s models was
Tilila Oulhaj is «making Marrakech her fashion playground», wrote Vogue World in an article dedicated to the twenty-two-year-old Moroccan model. Born in Azilal, Tilila worked as a debate teacher before deciding to move to Marrakech to start her modeling career. The young woman represents the two sides of a modern and traditional world through fashion. Moroccan model Tilila Oulhaj./Ph. Vogue The full-time model works for local brands and «established» ones as Vogue
Who said veiled women cannot be cosplayers ? Attending the New York' 2018 Comic Con, a group of Hijabi girls pulled off their favorite Marvels costumes, proving everyone wrong. According to American magazine TeenVogue, the veiled cosplayers marked the annual event that took place last weekend and impressed the internet. In a photo shared on social media by one of these girls, they appear «dressed as characters like Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man, but the only difference was
On social media, Moroccan women created their own hashtag to denounce sexual harassment. Masaktach, (I am not keeping quiet) has went viral on the internet and several female internet users took their anger to Twitter and Facebook in a quite particular context. In fact, Morocco passed on September the 12th bill 103.13 on combating violence against women and which was dedicated also to sexual harassment. This step, in addition to several cases that were recently mediatized such as the
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