Arab Women by Nationality - Moroccan

 

Farida Benlyazid

Morocco

b.1948

Film maker

  • educated at IDHEC in Paris
  • worked as journalist and writer
  • wrote scripts for Sharkhum fi-l Hai'it (1978) and Arais Min Qasab (1981) for her husband, director Jillali Ferhati
  • directs her first feature film in 1987 bab al-Sama' Maftuh/Gateway to Heaven
  • wrote script for Badis (1988) and Bahthan an zawj imra'ati (1993)
  • owns Tingitania Films, a film production company

Leaman, Oliver, ed. Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. London: Routledge, 2001. Print. p.484. (DWC collection PN1993.5.A65 C66 2001)

http://movies.nytimes.com/person/271679/Farida-Benlyazid

Fatima Mernissi

Moroccan

1941

Sociologist and writer

  • educated University of Paris (Sorbonne)
  • Professor at University Mohammed V (Rabat)
  • published Fear of Modernity or the Political Harem, Dreams on the threshold

http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04/premiados/trayectorias/trayectoria767.html

International Who’s Who of Women. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2008. Print. p.575-576. (DWC collection REF CT3202.I58 2008)
Lalla Aicha bint Muhammed, HRH Princess

Moroccan

b. 1930

Diplomat

  • Ambassador to United Kingdom 1965-9
  • Ambassador to Itay 1969-73
  • President of the Moroccan Red Crescent

International Who’s Who of Women. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2008. Print. p.1235. (DWC collection REF CT3202.I58 2008)

Malika Agueznay

 Moroccan

Artist

  • educated at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Casablanca
  • has exhibited works in solo and group exhibitions since 1986 in Morocco, USA, Japan, Syria, Tunisia, Paris, Poland, Spain, and Iraq
  • works in oil on canvas and etchings

Lloyd, Fran, ed. Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the Present. London: WAL (Women’s Art Library), 1999. Print. p.224, 152-153. (DWC collection N6260.C65 1999)

http://wwol.is.asu.edu/agueznay.html

Nawal El Moutawakel

Moroccan

1962

Athlete (Hurdles)

  • educated at Iowa State University (USA) 1983-
  • dominated national and regional 100 and 400m hurdle competitions in the early 1980s
  • won Gold medal at Olympic Games in Los Angles 1984
  • first arab woman to win an Olympic Gold medal
  • first Moroccan to win an Olympic Gold medal
  • retired from competition 1987 after a knee injury
  • sprint and hurdle coach in Morocco
  • organized first women's road race in Casablanca in 1993
  • became member of the executive board of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (track and field) 1995
  • became member of the International Olympic Committee 1998-

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawal_El_Moutawakel

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030206/2003020606.html

International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports ed. Karen Christensen et al. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001 p.362