Citadine

Citadine
Categories Women's magazine
Publisher Lilas Press
Year founded 1995
First issue 1 October 1995 (1995-10-01)
Country Morocco
Based in Casablanca
Language French
ISSN 1113-593X
OCLC number 37968925

Citadine (meaning City Women in English) is a French language women's and lifestyle magazine published in Casablanca, Morocco.[1] It is the first lifestyle magazine published in the country.[2]

History and profile

The magazine was first published in October 1995[3] under the name of La Citadine.[4] It was renamed as Citadine in May 1997.[4] The magazine is based in Casablanca.[4] The publication of the magazine and Femmes du Maroc, another francophone women's magazine, was significant in that it represented an important development in the Moroccan society.[5][6]

The publisher and owner of the magazine is Lilas Press.[3][7] The target audience of the magazine, published in French, is young women.[3][8] It promotes a Western ideal of beauty.[4] However, magazine also covered critical articles in the 1990s on sexual exploitation, domestic violence and harassment at schools against women.[9]

Keltoum Ghazali served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[3] Ilham Benzakour also served in the post in the mid-2000s.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Fatima Sadiqi (January 2003). Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco. BRILL. p. 24. ISBN 90-04-12853-0. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 M. Angela Jansen. "Three Generations of Moroccan Fashion Designers" (PDF). Critical Issues. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Loubna H. Skalli (1 January 2006). Through a Local Prism: Gender, Globalization, and Identity in Moroccan Women's Magazines. Lexington Books. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-7391-1194-9. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Valérie K. Orlando (23 June 2009). Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-230-62259-3. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  5. ↑ Dawn Marley. "Language use in women’s magazines as a reflection of hybrid linguistic identity in Morocco" (PDF). E Publications. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Farah Kinani (3 December 2006). "Moroccan author Skalli discusses her book, research". Magharebia. Washington DC. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  7. ↑ Karima Rhanem (30 March 2006). "Solidarity: Haifaa Wehbe in Morocco to support Red Ribbon". Morocco Times. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Victoria B. Korzeniowska (April 2005). "Gender, space and identification in Femmes du Maroc and Citadine". International Journal of Francophone Studies 8 (1). Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Skalli, Loubna H. (Spring 2006). "Communicating gender in the public sphere: women and information technologies in the MENA". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, special issue: Women's Activism and the Public Sphere (Duke University Press) 2 (2): 35–59. doi:10.2979/mew.2006.2.2.35. JSTOR 10.2979/mew.2006.2.2.35. Pdf.
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