Touria Nakkouch
Touria Nakkouch has been invited to be a Medi-Café Adviser for 2008 - 2009. Her role will be to work alongside the mentors (Kate, Stephen and Andrew) in facilitating the online discussions as a moderator and, we hope, to lead an Adviser's session at the workshops in Tunisia and Morocco.
Touria is a native of the city of Agadir in Morocco, where she attended elementary and secondary school. She then enrolled at Mohamed V University in Rabat, where she studied English. She was appointed at the faculty of Letters I, Hassan II University, Casablanca, directly after returning from Kent University, UK, with a Master's in English Literature. She has also taught literature at the Faculty of Letters at Ibnou-Zohr University, Agadir since 1991. There, she helped set up and chaired a Licence programme in English Studies in the new modular system from 2003 to 2006.
She equally co-founded and actively participated in a pioneer group of research in Women Studies at Ibnou-Zohr University (the GAREF) from 1996 to 2000.
In June 2007, she successfully completed a PhD dissertation in Comparative Women Studies under the joint supervision of Dr. Fouzia Rhissassi (Rabat, Morocco) and Dr. Valerie Kennedy (Ankara, Turkey). Since then, she has been working on a series of articles on the situation of women in Morocco, in the light of the recent developments in the Maghreb.
She wrote a series of articles in Comparative Literature and in Women Studies, published by the following universities:
• Mohamed V University, Faculty of Letters, Rabat. Colloques et Séminaires N° 65 (1997).
• Mohamed V University, Faculty of Social, Economic, and Juridical Sciences, Rabat. Actes du Colloque Comprendre les Inégalités Hommes- Femmes: L'approche genre (Avril 2004).
• Ibn-Zohr University, Faculty of Letters, Agadir. Dirassat N° 11 (2003).
• Dirassat N°12 (2006).
• Ibn-Tofail University, Faculty of Letters, Kenitra. (Forthcoming)
She is based in Agadir and is mother of two children. A Women Studies specialist, she has other areas of interest, namely teaching English and American literature, English poetry, creative writing, cultural studies, and comparative literature.
She is the winner of the British Council Prize of Literature (poetry) in 2003 and an ex-member of the Moroccan Writers Community.
She is currently setting up a Master’s program in Comparative Studies, which is due to start in the department of English Studies of Ibn –Zohr University in November 2010.
Contact details:
Office Phone: (212) 05 280558
Fax: (212) 028221620
Home Phone: (212) 05 28320281
Email at nakkouchtr@yahoo.com
