{{Short description|Monthly women's magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Moroccan Ladies<br>''نساء''<br>Femmes du Maroc | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Femmes du Maroc (magazine).jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | publisher = Caractères | founder = | founded = {{start date and age|1995}} | firstdate = <!-- {{Start date|year|month|day}} --> | company = | country = Morocco | based = Sidi Maârouf, Casablanca | language = French | website = {{URL|femmesdumaroc.com}} | issn = | oclc = 37973288 }}
'''''Femmes du Maroc''''' ({{Langx|ar|نساء}} ''women'', {{Langx|fr|Femmes du Maroc}}) is a monthly women's magazine published in Arabic, and French in Casablanca, Morocco.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moroccanladies.com/about-us|title=About us|website=Moroccan Ladies|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref>
==History and profile== ''Femmes du Maroc'' was first published in November 1995.<ref>{{cite book|author=Loubna H. Skalli|title=Through a Local Prism: Gender, Globalization, and Identity in Moroccan Women's Magazines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3eCDzLM8ywC&pg=PA76|access-date=8 September 2014|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-1194-9|page=76}}</ref> The magazine is published by the Moroccan publishing house Caractères and directed, together with ''Nissae'', by the Moroccan journalist Aïsha Zaïmi Sakhri, known for her strong support of women's rights.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lavieeco.com/culture/6733-femmes-du-maroc-bientot-dix-ans-aux-cotes-des-femmes.html |title=La Vie Eco, 8 July 2005 |access-date=2 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225202241/http://www.lavieeco.com/culture/6733-femmes-du-maroc-bientot-dix-ans-aux-cotes-des-femmes.html |archive-date=25 December 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its first editor-in-chief was also Sakhri.<ref>{{cite journal|author=M. Angela Jansen|title=Three Generations of Moroccan Fashion Designers|journal=Critical Issues|url=http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/jansenfashpaper.pdf|access-date=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035459/http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/jansenfashpaper.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The magazine has a large fashion and beauty section, besides other sections such as psychological advice aimed mainly at working women, advice for a more pleasurable sex life<ref>[http://www.tilelli.nl/wpress/?p=238 Volkskrant] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220061949/http://www.tilelli.nl/wpress/?p=238 |date=20 February 2012 }} 1 June 2008.</ref> and, since 2004, a small section called 'celibattante', which translates loosely as 'unmarried and proud of it' breaks the taboo of considering sexual relations only inside the marriage framework. The monthly considers itself a feminist publication with a clear aim of changing the situation of women in the Moroccan society.<ref>[http://www.lagazettedumaroc.com/articles.php?r=5&sr=925&n=390&id_artl=5129 ''La Gazette du Maroc''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713181434/http://www.lagazettedumaroc.com/articles.php?r=5&sr=925&n=390&id_artl=5129 |date=13 July 2011 }} 18 October 2004.</ref> The magazine covered critical articles in the 1990s on sexual exploitation, domestic violence and harassment at schools against women.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Skalli | first = Loubna H. | title = Communicating gender in the public sphere: women and information technologies in the MENA | journal = Journal of Middle East Women's Studies | volume = 2 | issue = 2 | pages = 35–59 | doi = 10.2979/mew.2006.2.2.35 | jstor = 10.2979/mew.2006.2.2.35 | date = Spring 2006 }} {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141011172923/http://weldd.org/sites/default/files/2.2skalli.pdf Pdf.]}}</ref>
In addition, the magazine offers long interviews with politicians, artists and activists and features articles that often criticize the patriarchal aspects of society. ''Moroccan Ladies'' launched signature campaigns asking for legal reforms. It also sponsors ''Caftan'', an annual commercial fashion event.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.telquel-online.com/246/semaine_arts_246.shtml |title=Tel Quel Nº 246 |access-date=2 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051327/http://www.telquel-online.com/246/semaine_arts_246.shtml |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2007 each issue sold around 13.500 copies,<ref>[http://www.ojd.ma/site/ma/chifadh.php?id=25 OJD Morocco]</ref> which made it the most widely read monthly French language magazine in the country. It has an Arabic sister publication, ''Nissae Min Al Maghrib'', which sells more than twice as much. Other Moroccan women magazines include ''Citadine'' ("''Citizen''" founded in 1995, with 8.000 copies sold), ''Ousra'' ("''Family''", in Arabic) and ''Parade'', all of them published in French,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.telquel-online.com/263/maroc8_263.shtml |title=TelQuel Nº 263 ' |access-date=2 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171007/http://www.telquel-online.com/263/maroc8_263.shtml |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''Citadine'' (Arabic version, around 5.600 copies sold), ''Lalla Fatima'' (around 34.000 copies), and ''Nissae Min Al Maghrib'' (around 36.000 copies), in Arabic language.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ojd.ma/site/ma/adherents.php |title=OJD Morocco |access-date=2 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201001627/http://www.ojd.ma/site/ma/adherents.php |archive-date=1 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== *Caftan Show
==References== {{Reflist|33em}}
==External links== *[http://femmesdumaroc.com/ Official website]
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