Houdaïfa peels back the ostensibly enlightened veneer of Moroccan society to expose a world of underage marriage,sexual exploitation and daily struggleLook around certain areas of Morocco, and you could be forgiven for thinking the country’s women own their feet planted firmly in the 21st century. In upmarket cafe-bars in Rabat, or young women wearing jeans and boots sit chatting and swiping smartphones. In the cosmopolitan Morocco Mall in Casablanca,Spanish and French fashion is displayed in dazzling shop windows. It all seems a portrait of the progressive.
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Source: theguardian.com