Fedwa Misk

Fedwa Misk is a Moroccan writer, former journalist, feminist, and women's rights activist. She participated in the 2011 February 20 Movement and subsequently opened an online magazine with the aim of promoting discussion about women in Morocco. Misk's publication Qandisha featured several high-profile stories and was targeted by hackers twice. She has been working as a writer for many newspapers and broadcaster of Diwane, a literary radio programme. In 2021, she published "Nos mères" (Our mothers), a play about transmission between women and its impact on feminism.

Career Misk attended six years of medical school and has worked as a freelance writer for Moroccan and foreign newspapers. As a journalist, she has been employed by the Le Courrier de l'Atlas newspaper focusing on articles about cultural events, interviews and portrait pieces. Misk also runs a literary café.

Qandisha On 14 November 2011, Misk founded the Qandisha website, a French-language online collaborative magazine inspired by what she believed was a lack of media support for improvements to the rights of women following the Arab Spring. The magazine was named after the mythical Qandisa, a female Jinn famous for her powers of seduction. Misk's aim was to demonstrate that women were interested in subjects broader than the fashion, beauty, and cooking items featured in other women's publications.