For nearly a century, the Africanity of the Maghrebians as well as the Libyans and Egyptians has been the subject of heated debate. One of the main drivers of this debate is their appearance. At first glance, the majority of North Africans would pass for Middle Easterners or Mediterranean Europeans. …

In a carpet market in the plains below the Middle Atlas Mountains, women are shearers, weavers, mediators, saleswomen and distributors. There is no place for men in their business model – and they like it. The market is in Khemisset, a bilingual town of Berbers and Arabs. It has long …

For the Spring 2017 season, TheFashionSpot reviewed 299 catwalks and 8,832 model appearances on the New York, London, Paris and Milan catwalks. They found that 74.6 percent of die-cast models were white and an incredibly low 0.40 percent of all die-cast models were of Middle Eastern origin. As the entire …