Aicha Mekki

Aicha Mekki (May 1992) was a Moroccan journalist who pioneered crime reporting in the country while working at L'Opinion. She was one of the few crime reporters and female journalists in the country and wrote the column “Au ban de la société” (On the Social Network) from 1977 to 1992.

Early and personal life Mekki was born Rkia Fatha in Taza in a Berber Muslim family. Some sources specify her year of birth as 1952. She grew up in poverty and studied at a Jewish school in the city, with a particular interest in the French language. Mekki experienced domestic abuse growing up. While she was still a child, her family moved to Carrières Centrales, a housing development in Casablanca. She enjoyed reading works such as Les Misérables and Madame Bovary. Mekki lived alone by the time of her death, Mekki was considered a pioneer of "modern crime reporting" in Morocco. Mekki also published confessions by criminals, which the Dictionary of African Biography described as showing "the abused and abandoned of Moroccan society in an unambiguously sympathetic light."

Death Mekki died in May 1992. Her body was discovered at her apartment two weeks after she stopped coming into work, on 16 May.