Touria Chaoui

Arab funeral service at the funeral of Touria Chaoui

Touria Chaoui (born December 14, 1936 in Fez ; † March 1, 1956 ibid) was the first Moroccan and the first Arab woman to acquire a pilot's license.

Life

Her passion for flying developed while she was still at school in Fès. The only flight school in Morocco, in the Casablanca region, initially refused to train a woman. In 1948, however, under the influence of the French director André Zwobada , who knew Touria Chaoui from a role in his film La Septième Porte , Touria received training as a pilot.

In 1952, at the age of sixteen, Touria became the first woman in Morocco to receive a pilot's license. She was the first female pilot in the Arab world. Newspapers around the world reported the sensation. Touria received congratulations from numerous women's organizations. Among other things, she received a signed photo of Jacqueline Auriol , the French test pilot, and niece of President Vincent Auriol . The King Mohammed V of Morocco received them at the palace to congratulate the Princess Lalla Aicha and Lalla Malika took part at the reception as well-wishers. On March 1, 1956, at the age of 19, she was just a copilot for a small airline, she was found murdered. The motive for the murder was never clarified.

Web links

Touria Chaoui: First Moroccan airline pilot (French) on aeronautique.ma

Photo: Touria Chaoui in pilot's uniform

Touria Chaoui: Une femme pilote assassinée à 19 ans press release (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Astrid Kaminski: You shouldn't have any heroes next to me. On the trail of Morocco's cultural history: the filmmaker Ali Essafi . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2, 2016, p. 11.
↑ Was the First Moroccan, Arab Woman Pilot
↑ Celebrate 100 Years of Licensed Women Pilots ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on centennialofwomenpilots.com @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Chaoui, Touria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	first Moroccan and Arab woman to acquire a pilot's license
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fez
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1956
Place of death	Fez

[1] Astrid Kaminski: You shouldn't have any heroes next to me. On the trail of Morocco's cultural history: the filmmaker Ali Essafi . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2, 2016, p. 11.

[2] Was the First Moroccan, Arab Woman Pilot

[3] Celebrate 100 Years of Licensed Women Pilots ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on centennialofwomenpilots.com @1@ 2