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Sofia Marikh – Tahwak /صوفيا مريخ – تهواك

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Empire ISIS – Passion

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Sofia Essaidi – J’croque La Vie

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Hindi Zahra – Imik Simik

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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.

I can’t get an exact count of all home or beauty products that are inspired by Morocco, or have some unique Moroccan ingredient. I started collecting such items at first, because seeing the word ‘Morocco’ on a foreign product made me happy, but that didn’t last because my wallet couldn’t keep up.

Barneys New York Sidi Kacem Candle

On the road from Tangiers to Asilah, under the crushing summer heat soaked with honey and benzoin, an Atlantic breeze cools the vast beach of Sidi Kacem. The marine smell of anise and the zesty vigor of verbena take flight. Here go the never-ending clouds, afterthoughts of an evening sun that carries away the peppery vapors of tea mint and infuses gray green absinthe.

Sephora: Moroccan Sunrise

There’s nothing more romantic than a good love story, and Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is one of the silver screen’s best examples. Amidst the exotic setting of Morocco, these jilted lovers find themselves in a most precarious political affair, overflowing with passion, distrust, love and sacrifice. Beautiful Morocco, perilous times, old Hollywood, inspired the new limited makeup collection at Sephora. Everything from the packaging, to the choice of colors to the texture is amazing.

 

Comme Des Garcons: Ouarzazate Incense

The high Atlas mountain city of Ouarzazate (pronounced war-za-zat) in Morocco was the inspiration of this masterpiece. At its opening, a sweet, balsamic tang of labdanum absolute quickly followed by zesty pepper tickles your nose. As it warms on the skin, the softly herbal clary sage (for which Morocco’s is hailed as among the finest in the world) blends with a now-calm pepper and nutmeg to make Ouarzazate a crossroads of perfectly blended, spiced incense of the Middle Eastern variety. We close our eyes and imagine we’re in the cool, still interior of Ouarzazate’s famous Kasbah.

The Body Shop: Moroccan Rose

  • Moroccan rose extracts moisturize and sooth skin with a fresh, floral scent.
  • Community Trade shea butter leaves skin soft, smooth and supple.
  • Community Trade babassu oil helps repair skin’s moisture barrier while restoring suppleness.

Bath & Body Shop: True Blue Morocco

The Morocco line of shower gels, lotions and body yogurts (yes, yogurts) are infused with outrageous ingredients such as saffron, figs, green tea, honey, mint, almonds, Shea butter and rose petals..so they’ve basically bottled up all of the things you’d find on your dream vacation..pretty clever.

Spa Wisdom Morocco

The Body Shop Spa Wisdom Morocco Black Olive & Argan Oil Scrub is a rich and intense exfoliating scrub that contains olive stone granules and fround argan nuts to remove dead skin cells and stimulate the circulation when massaged in. It contains a selection of community trade ingredients such as olive oil from Italy and organic honey from Zambia for a radiant-looking glow that leaves skin feeling invigorated and revived.

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.

Sondra Barker previous shots for Coexistence Magazine


Source: www.sondrabarker.com

Celebrity: Sondra Barker
Profession: Model, actress & singer
Origin: Moroccan raised in NY
Claim to fame: 2003 finalist at Venus Model Search in Hawaii

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)

source: LailaAzhar.com

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.

Celebrity: Said Taghmaoui
Profession: Actror
Origin: Moroccan born in France
Claim to fame: 3 Kings, Ali Zawa, GI Joe, House of Saddam, Traitor

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