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Women journalists from Turkey, Algeria, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain, Egypt, France, Morocco and Palestine will consider the “Mediterranean Woman in her 20s” in 45 articles.

2008: 4 years have passed since the reform of the Family Code. Casablanca, a population of 3.5 million (officially), economic capital and melting pot of ancient resident and rural populations who have come to seek employment, of middle classes … Amal, Leyla, Ikram, Ghanya, Amina and Kawtar live their twenties here. Their priority: to work.

Despite the culture of disapproval and the fact that punishment can reach murder or reclusion, love is still worth the risk in Palestine.

They live different realities but almost all, with two exceptions, have place the word “love” on top of their scale of values. Yet they don’t dream of the white dress; “marriage” has a very low rating, whereas having children is everyone’s dream for the future.

Forty years have passed since the sexual revolution started on May ’68. How do young women in their 20’s live love today? Seven among them, students or workers coming from all parts of France, have accepted to speak to us about their love life. Intimate secrets.

If there is one thing that unites young Egyptian women in their twenties today it is that they are generally more articulate in expressing themselves than their mothers' and grandmothers' generation

In Beirut, few young men haven’t emigrated yet, and the competition is getting tough among women. From enticing dresses to plastic surgery, everything goes to attract the attention of their potential targets.

Neither Conchita, nor femme fatale… Only ten years have passed since the era of Franco and women’s conditions in Spain have witnessed quite a change.