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2- Decide on what is part of the Moroccan family and what is not from the following:
Mutual comprehension - shared responsibility - marriage age is 16 - women can’t work - the first wife
must approve polygamy – marriage age is 18 - social emancipation - gender equality - violence is tolerated
Part of the Moroccan Family Code Not part of the Moroccan Family Code
5- Guess the answers then read the text and check them:
Salwa Akhannouch
Head of Akwa Group, a distributor of petroleum products, SalwaAkhannouch is a prominent Moroccan
businesswoman who heads the franchise group Aksal, founded in 2004. Her ambitious project, Morocco Mall, is the
largest shopping center of Africa and the Middle East and in the world top five. Her father, the famous Berber
businessman Ahmed Haj Belfiqih, made his fortune in the tea trade. She is married to Aziz Akhannouch, Minister of
Agriculture.
Nezha Hayat
Nezha Hayat is one of Morocco’s leading company directors and an avowed campaigner for women in business.
Founder and deputy chair of the Association des Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises du Maroc, (Association of Women
Business Managers in Morocco) Nezhais very attached to the presence of women on boards of directors, and the first
woman member of the Executive Board in 2007 to SocieteGenerale Morocco.
Amina Benkhadra
Amina Benkhadra is a Moroccan engineer and politician of the National Rally of Independents party. She was Minister
of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment of Morocco in El Fassi’s government between 2007 and 2012. Currently,
she is General Director of the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines.
Adapted from; moroccoworldnews.com
a- SalwaAkhannouch is single.
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b- Nezha Hayat is a prominent company director. ………………………….…………………………….…
c- Amina Benkhadra is now retired.………………………………………
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7- Answer the following questions:
a- What is Salwa’s project? _________________________________________________________________
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b- What associations has Nezha established? _________________________________________________
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c- What does Amina do nowadays?
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8- Find synonyms:
Noted (text 1)
Most important(text 2)
Gathering(text 3)