❌

Reading view

There are new articles available, click to refresh the page.
↗️

Morocco’s King Names a Female Prime Minister, in a Historic First

✇NYT - World
By: Aida Alami and Ephrat Livni
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, a lawyer and politician from the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party, is only the second woman to lead the government of a North African country.

© Abdel Majid Bziouat/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Morocco’s new prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, celebrating election results with members of her party last week in Rabat, Morocco.
↗️

Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’

✇NYT - World
By: Yan Zhuang and Li You
The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.

© Zhu Zhenqiang/VCG, via Getty Images

A woman reads at a bookstore in Beijing in August. “Jane Eyre” has found generations of readers in China since it was first translated into Chinese a century ago.
❌