Nadia Yassine

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Nadia Yassine (Arabic: ندية ياسين‎) (born December 1958) is the founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan banned Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Charity). Born in Casablanca, Morocco, she is the daughter of the founder of the same organization Cheikh Abdesslam Yassine.

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[edit] Education

She went to French-cultural-mission schools for her primary and secondary education, respectively at Paul Cezanne Primary School, Descartes’s High School in Rabat and Victor Hugo High School in Marrakech. From the latter she earned her high school diploma with distinction in 1977. She next moved to the College of Political Sciences in Fes and graduated in 1980.

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Like other members of her family, she was denied the right to leave the country for some time. She nevertheless continued her education while teaching the French language in private schools for four years. Then she discontinued her teaching career in order to found and run Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane’s Women’s branch.

Her husband, Mr.Abdellah Chibani, was imprisoned in the company of the members of Al Adl Wa AL Ihssane's Orientation Council for two years (1990–1992).

Lecturer and author of numerous articles, she gave many interviews that appeared in such newspapers as Le Monde, El Pais, Asharq Alawsat, Der Spiegel, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, The Times, US News & World Report among others as well as in websites such as IslamOnLine and Oumma.com.

Her first book Toutes voile dehors was published in 2003 by Le Fennec in Morocco and Altereditions in France. An English language edition, Full Sails Ahead, was published in 2006.

Since she obtained her passport in 2003, she took part in many international conferences and forums, among which are:

  • The 6th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Budapest (Hungary , May 2003)
  • Critical Discourse and Political Reflection , San Sebastian (Spain, June 2004)
  • Strategic Meeting of Anti-war and Anti-globalization Movements, Beirut (Lebanon, September 2004).
  • “The Arabic House Institution” meeting , Amsterdam (Holland, September 2004)
  • Islam and Democracy, Berkeley (USA, April 2005)

She also gave many lectures in Morocco and in Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Amsterdam and New York.

She has Islamist stances on national and international issues and opposes the new Mudawana (Moroccan family code) that gave more rights to women. She took part in demonstrations and was arrested with her family members when they took part in a sit-in in support of human rights. All of them were sentenced to four months of imprisonment and had to pay fines. (The sentence is still deferred.)

She was prosecuted for lese majesty and disrespect of “national sacred institutions” on the ground of an interview she gave to the Moroccan weekly “Al Usbu’iya Al Jadida” (June 2, 2005) where she criticized monarchy to which she favoured the republic. She was set to go on trial, but after unprecedented media attention, the trial was postponed and no new date set.

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