Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema

Florence Martin is Dean John Blackford Van Meter Professor of French Transnational Studies at Goucher College, USA. She is the author of Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women’s Cinema (2011) and the co-author (with Will Higbee and Jamal Bahmad) of Moroccan Cinema Uncut: Decentred Voices, Transnational Perspectives (2020).

“Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema is a significant contribution and a timely publication … . The book explicitly invites film researchers to focus more than before on Moroccan women’s cinema, and offers the readers a fresh look at the experience of the first Moroccan female producer and director. For these reasons, this academic endeavour will be of great importance to anyone working on or teaching film, media and gender studies, inside or outside the kingdom.” (Said Chemlal, Africa Review, Vol. 17 (3), July, 2025)

• Chapter 1: Tangier and Paris – Multiculturalism and Feminism.- Chapter 2: Tangier and (Re)Turn to Fes: A Door to the Sky (1988).- Chapter 3: Farida’s great halqa throughout Morocco & beyond.- Chapter 4: Tangier and the world: Juanita Narboni (2005).- Chapter 5: The Sahara, the Atlas, and Tangier.