Citadine

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Citadine
Categories Women's magazine
Publisher Lilas Press
Year founded 1995
First issue 1 October 1995; 28 years ago (1995-10-01)
Country Morocco
Based in Casablanca
Language French
ISSN 1113-593X
OCLC number 37968925

Citadine (meaning City Women in English) is a French language women's and lifestyle magazine published in Casablanca, Morocco.[1] It is the first lifestyle magazine published in the country.[2]

History and profile

The magazine was first published in October 1995[3] under the name of La Citadine.[4] It was renamed as Citadine in May 1997.[4] The magazine is based in Casablanca.[4] The publication of the magazine and Femmes du Maroc, another francophone women's magazine, was significant in that it represented an important development in the Moroccan society.[5][6]

The publisher and owner of the magazine is Lilas Press.[3][7] The target audience of the magazine, published in French, is young women.[3][8] It promotes a Western ideal of beauty.[4] However, magazine also covered critical articles in the 1990s on sexual exploitation, domestic violence and harassment at schools against women.[9]

Keltoum Ghazali served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[3] Ilham Benzakour also served in the post in the mid-2000s.[2]

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