Fedwa Misk

She participated in the 2011 February 20 Movement and subsequently opened an online magazine with the aim of promoting discussion about women in Morocco.

[1] As a journalist, she has been employed by the Le Courrier de l'Atlas newspaper focusing on articles about cultural events, interviews and portrait pieces.

[4] On 14 November 2011, Misk founded the Qandisha website, a French-language online collaborative magazine inspired by what she believed was a lack of media support for improvements to the rights of women following the Arab Spring.

[1] The magazine frequently covers contentious topics including that of a Moroccan politician who was acquitted of rape, despite the victim subsequently giving birth to what she said was his baby.

In 2011, Qandisha elicited a formal apology from the French consul general in Casablanca after it revealed a young woman had been rudely treated by its staff.

[5] In June 2012, the site was hacked and the page changed to show the Moroccan royal emblem and national motto "god, the country and the king".