Leïla Slimani

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Fresh Air · French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's why people would look down at my grandparents, because it was very scandalous at that time for a white woman to have sexual intercourse with an Arab.

So that's why they decided to apply those laws.

But then when they left, the

Moroccans kept the law.

But I think that now they use it more to dominate people.

And when I see the people, it's the poor people.

I spoke with a lot of students, 17, 18 years old, who tell you life is difficult.

We don't have a lot of money.

We don't have a lot of

place to go to to have fun.

And we don't have a lot of perspectives in terms of job.

But maybe the worst is that we can't even have a girlfriend.

We can't go in the street with a girlfriend and taking her hand and kissing her in the street because we know that a cop is going to harass us and ask us for money and things like that.

But when you are rich in Morocco, you can do whatever you want.

You have the same kind of sexuality that you have in the West.

You can find your way to have abortion because you can pay.

You can be homosexual and you can have relationship and big parties in your house because no one will come into your house to look at what you're doing.

So for me, the matter is really is a social class matter.

You don't have the same sexuality depending on being poor or being rich.

No, it's mostly women, mostly women.

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