Susan Brownmiller is an American journalist, author and feminist activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which was selected by The New York Public Library as one of 100 most important books of the 20th century.
Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist and novelist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hacked Off.
Bahaa Trabelsi is a Moroccan novelist, journalist and screenwriter.
Nazand Begikhani is a contemporary Kurdish/British writer, poet and leading academic researcher into gender based violence, and an active advocate of human rights. She is an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, Centre for Gender and Violence Research and has been awarded the Vincent Wright Chair 2019/2020 and works as a visiting professor at Sciences Po School for International Affairs, Paris.
Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani is a Moroccan poet and writer of a book of short stories, Jellabiates (2001). She published: Tendresse et autres lumières and Sparks of Life, two collections of poetry at Aïni Bennai editions, Casablanca (2004). In 2021 she published Et pourtant elle rêve, a novel in French.She was invited for a writing residence in 2002 in England in Hadrian's Wall region where there were Moroccans at the beginning of the second century. A journal of this residence is published on the net: Berbers in Solway: Journal of a Moroccan poet. In 2009 she published The call of Hagar in Women writing Africa, The Northern Region She is a member of the Centre d’études et de recherche sur la Méditerranée and of the Medina Sociocultural association. She was a nominee in 2012 for the Moroccan Women Mentoring and Networking Award.
Jezebel is a US-based website featuring news and cultural commentary geared towards women. It was launched in 2007 by Gawker Media under the editorship of Anna Holmes as a feminist counterpoint to traditional women's magazines.
The history of women in Morocco can be divided into periods: before, during, and after the arrival of Islam.
Irreligion in Morocco is relatively uncommon, in the country. While a 2015 poll of about 1000 Moroccans by Gallup International found that 4% of respondents said they were "not religious", and 1% reported being a "convinced atheist", while 93% said they were religious
Saad Lamjarred is a Moroccan singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and record producer. His official music video for "LM3ALLEM" has received over 1 billion views on YouTube. Saad Lamjarred has had 16 songs so far.
Australia has a long-standing association with the protection and creation of women's rights. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote and the first to give women the right to be elected to a national parliament. The Australian state of South Australia, then a British colony, was the first parliament in the world to grant some women full suffrage rights. Australia has since had multiple notable women serving in public office as well as other fields. In Australia, European women were granted the right to vote and to be elected at federal elections in 1902.
Ali Oumlil is a Moroccan philosopher, thinker, human rights activist, diplomat and political persona.
Aïcha Chenna was a Moroccan social worker, women's rights advocate and activist. A registered nurse, she began working with disadvantaged women as an employee of the country's Ministry of Health. In 1985, she founded the Association Solidarité Féminine (ASF), a Casablanca-based charity that assists single mothers and victims of abuse. Chenna received various humanitarian awards for her work, including the 2009 Opus Prize.
Qandisha is a French language online magazine for women in Morocco and the wider Arab world. It was founded in 2011 by Fedwa Misk, a Moroccan journalist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and a group of other women concerned that women's rights were being ignored by the media during the Arab Spring. The publication is a hybrid between a magazine and a webzine, and is a collaborative effort, encouraging participation from its readers.
Le Courrier de l'Atlas is a French newspaper specialising in reporting about issues regarding the Maghreb in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Fedwa Misk is one of its main contributors.
Fedwa Malti-Douglas is a Lebanese-American professor and writer. She is a professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington. Malti-Douglas has written several books, including The Starr Report Disrobed (2000). She received a National Humanities Medal in 2015.
Zainab Fasiki is a Moroccan graphic artist, activist for women's rights and mechanical engineer by training. She became internationally known after 2019, following her graphic novel Hshouma, corps et sexualité au Maroc which was translated from French into Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, Galician and Italian.
Noura Borsali was a Tunisian academic, journalist, writer, literary critic and film critic, as well as a trade unionist, a human rights activist and a figure of Tunisian feminism.
Latifa Jbabdi is a Moroccan feminist activist and writer. She is best known for her work to help improve women's rights through reforming the Mudawana, Morocco's legal code governing family life. She also served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.
Malika Moustadraf was a Moroccan Arabic-language writer. She is best known for her pioneering short stories and women's rights activism, which set her squarely in Morocco's feminist vanguard. Before her early death at age 37, she published a novel, Jirah al-ruh wa-l-jasad, and the story collection Trente-Six.
Layla Chaouni, also known as Layla Chaouni Benabdallah, is a Moroccan publisher and activist for Human and Women's Rights. She is best known as director of her publishing company Éditions Le Fennec, having published more than 500 titles both in French and Arabic.
