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Morocco: Celebrating the First Female Mayor of Marrakesh

Posted by Jillian C. York on 29/06/2009

The Moroccan elections of two weeks ago brought surprising results and were received with mixed reactions, as Hisham pointed out in this post.  One such result was the election of a woman to the position of mayor in Marrakesh for the very first time.  Fatima Zahra Mansouri, who studied law, is only the second woman [...]

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