Hassnae Bouazza (Arabic: حسناء بوعزة, ḥasnāʾ būʿazza; born 1973) is a

Moroccan-Dutch Moroccans in the Netherlands (, , also known as Dutch-Moroccans or Moroccan-Dutch) are immigrants from Morocco to the Netherlands and their descendants. Migration history Moroccans were not much represented in the first major postwar wave of mi ...

journalist, writer, columnist, translator and television programme maker.

Life

Bouazza was born in the city of in

Oujda Oujda ( ar, وجدة; ber, ⵡⵓⵊⴷⴰ, Wujda) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria. Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of about 558,000 people. It ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

, close to the

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border. She moved with her family including brother Hafid (now a noted writer) to the Netherlands to join her father, who worked there as a

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. They lived in the village of

Arkel Arkel is a town in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. A part of the municipality of Molenlanden, it lies about 3 km north of Gorinchem. Arkel is a former municipality; in 1986 it became part of Giessenlanden. In 2017, the village of ...

where they were the only Moroccans. Bouazza studied

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and literature at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. She started writing columns for various periodicals (including ''

Vrij Nederland ''Vrij Nederland'' (Free Netherlands) is a Dutch magazine, established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper. It has since grown into a magazine. The originally weekly and now monthly magaz ...

''. Bouazza also worked for the

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as a television programme maker. She is known for discussing taboo subjects like pornography in the

Arab world The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western A ...

. Bouazza is the editor of a collection of short stories called ''Achter de sluier'' (Behind the Veil) about strong Arab women.

Works

* 1999 ''Achter de Sluier'' (''Behind the Veil'') * 2013 ''Arabieren kijken – de alledaagse revolutie'' (''Watching Arabs – the everyday revolution'') * 2014 ''Seks en de Zonde'' (''Sex and the Sin'')

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouazza, Hassnae 1973 births Living people Dutch journalists Dutch women journalists Dutch columnists Dutch women columnists Moroccan journalists Moroccan women columnists Moroccan emigrants to the Netherlands People from Oujda