Lamia Bazir's Official Website
Official Website
Lamia Bazir's Official Website
Official Website
Browsing Year
“Women’s Arab Spring”: that is the aspiration of many women around North Africa and the Middle East. As a young female Moroccan student, I am also involved in women’s empowerment in my country. However, since a very early age, I have misunderstood and rejected the opposition between so-called progressive and Islamic feminists. I have decided …
Together with influential thinkers and social activists, Lamia Bazir was invited by the US Embassy and Jossour: Moroccan women’s forum, to meet young girls in the region of Tangiers and Tetouan in order to speak about the Moroccan Feminist Movement. Lamia saluted this initiative and spoke of the importance for the new generation to know, …
On February 7th, 2015 Lamia was invited to speak in a panel on the theme of “Morocco’s Immaterial Capital: Challenges and Opportunities”. She emphasized that even if Morocco is rich in terms of immaterial assets (human, cultural, historical…), Morocco’s immaterial wealth is above all a potential. This potential still has to be determined, valorized, and developed …
Together with her colleague Aura Martinez, Lamia Bazir visited six rural zones in Niger and participated in sensitization campaigns targeting women’s groups, youth, and local producers. In this picture, Lamia Bazir interviews a local woman in Torodo to understand the specific challenges women face and which traditional and new channels are most effective for women to …
Lamia Bazir got the opportunity to conduct research and analysis on the impediments that prevent women from engaging in the fight against corruption. Together with her colleague Aura Martinez, she visited Niger and worked jointly with Transparency International’s section in Niamey to understand how women are impacted by corruption and what prevents them from reporting …
As a young Moroccan woman who aspires to participate in the management of public affairs in my own country, I often wondered: what would prevent me from becoming a corrupt political leader? What pre-disposes so many transparent young individuals to become corruptible decision-makers? How to ensure that citizens will not abuse entrusted power for private …
In this episode, I share my take aways from engaging discussions I had on corruption, leadership, democratization, and being a woman in Niger. But I have decided to make my first contribution as genuine and personal as my trip was. Here I am, at the airport of Niamey. Many questions come to my mind. I have chosen …
On Saturday September 19th, 2015 Lamia Bazir was invited to speak at the Leadership Annual Conference organized by the Leadership Development Institute at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. Her academic, social, and professional experience is a source of inspiration for many young Moroccan women and men who gathered to listen to her talk and interchange …
I belong to this new generation of youth that refuse to be reduced to a role of figuration. I belong to this new era, where each individual is a national and global citizen claiming the right to achieve himself, and to contribute to the future of his country and to the prosperity of our global …
It was during an open session on women in the global agenda that Lamia Bazir was spotted and selected to be a representative at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Her outspokeness, and innovative vision attracted the “Third World Network” to nominate her as one of their representatives at the United Nations. …