
The story of a Berber girl born in Morocco. Her father was in the army and her mother a housewife, occasional actress and singer of village repute. Among her uncles were musicians, into the post-psychedelic Moroccan scene of the time. She grew up to the sound of divas ¾ raï and châabi, like Cheikha Rimitti, and the great Egyptian Oum Khalsoum ¾ between traditional Berber music and desert rock’n’roll, with the blues of the great Malian Ali Farka Touré and the sensual folk music of Ismaël Lo in the wings. All this before she set out across the Mediterranean to join her father in Paris. She left school and got her first job at 18 in the Louvre and started writing her first lyrics and learning different instruments.
Celebrity: Hindi Zahra
Profession: Musician, vocalist.
Origin: Khouribga, Morocco
Claim to fame: her berber and english song Imik Simik was a huge hit. The songStand Up was chosen for a commercial campaign by Western Union
Kenza Zouiten
Name: Kenza Zouiten
Age: 20
Job: Fashion blogger, TV personality with comic series Kenza & Tyrashow, host of Channel 5 & Model Hunt. Shoe and clothing designer of collections ( Wildflower by Kenza and Jofama by Kenza sold in hundreds of stores throughout the Nordic countries), jewelry designer of a collection called Guldfynd by Kenza sold at Guldfynd.
Job: Sweden
Blog: http://kenzas.se/
Scoop: Half Moroccan Kenza’s site is Sweden’s largest blog with about 140 000 visitors each day, she blogs about her daily life, shoots, fashion, travel, shopping & a lot more.
Soukaina & Sofia

Name: Sofia & Soukaina Gharbi
Age: 17 & 16
Job: Students and bloggers
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Blog: http://it-blogirls.blogspot.com
Scoop: The 2 lifelong friends/bloggers have been featured in Elle Brazil, US, France, Glamour and many other online portals.
Sofia

Name: Sofia
Age: 28
Job: blogger/stylist
Blog: http://fashion-bakchic.blogspot.com
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Scoop: global fashion with a brain, inspired by the Moroccan streets and her travels: “If I create, I repeat, is to shout to the world that fashion is present in Morocco and we do not eat couscous on the backs of camels after a mint tea. There are creators, geniuses, girls stuffed with talent, magical places and cultural events gradually.” – Sofia
Eve Yasmine

Name: Eve Yasmine Saoud Easton
Age: 17
Job: blogger/ reporter /magazine editor in chief
Blog: http://www.eve-yasmine.com/blog/
Location: London
Scoop: Only 17 and she’s already rubbed shoulders with showbiz’s biggest name (Cee-lo, Kerri Hilson, Lionel Richie…etc). She also juggles many careers as fashion blogger, SuperStar magazine editor in chief, and official blogger for Britain’s Next Top Model.
Nafissa

Name: Nafissa El Hajjami
Age: 16
Job: blogger/student/editor
Blog: http://thefashionloungebynafissa.blogspot.com
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Scoop: Her blog is solely in English and she does a great job at posting about trends.
Kenza Zouiten is one of the most popular blog writers in Sweden.
Her blog has more than 100.000 daily visitors following this 20 year old girl with a very busy schedule.
Kenza has a great interest in fashion and is also working as a model. She’s also been seen as VJ for MTV.




Celebrity: Kenza Zouiten
Profession: blogger, model, designer, MTV vj
Origin: Swedish currently living in Sweden.
Claim to fame: her famous fashion blog www.kenzas.se
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Celebrity: Layla El
Profession: Wrestler, Model, former Miami Heat Cheerleader
Origin: Moroccan, born in UK, currently living in Miami
Claim to fame: Winner of the 2006 $250,000 Diva Search. Before becoming a spunky SmackDown Diva, she performed with Kanye West during the MTV Video Music Awards.

Born in Morocco, designer Laila first moved to the United States with her family at the age of five. She spent her childhood traveling between Morocco and Washington, D.C., before finally moving to Canada to attend McGill University in Montreal. Whilst earning her Bachelors degree in Biology, Laila was gratefully exposed to the fashion industry through modeling opportunities which served as a catalyst and driving force to create her own designs.
In 2002, Laila enrolled in Parsons School of Design to pursue her strong ambition of becoming a fashion designer. After graduating and working for two years as an Assistant Designer, Laila knew it was time to materialize her vision into reality. She launched her label into the Women’s Designer Contemporary market and was immediately well received both critically and commercially. Today her dresses are worn by young hip celebrities like Lauren Conrad, Taylor Swift, Khloe Kardashian…etc.
Celebrity: Laila Azhar
Profession: Designer, Parson’s graduate former model
Origin: Moroccan raised in Canada
Claim to fame: dressing most Hollywood starlets (Lauren Conrad, Kloe Kardashian, Sierra..etc)





Comme Des Garcons: Ouarzazate Incense
The Body Shop: Moroccan Rose





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We enjoy watching Said in everything he does, he is one of the greatest actors and we believe he’s well suited for a role in the up-coming movie, Conan the Barbarian. Said was a pro boxer, and he speaks 4 languages fluently, we hope for once he’s not casted as the typical Arab or muslim terrorist, because he obviously has a lot more to offer.




