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The appointment of Fatima Zahra Mansouri comes after her center-right party won last week's parliamentary elections in Morocco. She had previously served as mayor of the city of Marrakesh.
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes the third woman to serve as prime minister in the Arab world.
On Tuesday, King Mohammed VI of Morocco appointed Fatima Zahra Mansouri, the Urban Planning Minister, as the country’s new prime minister. This landmark decision makes Mansouri the first woman to hold this position in the Muslim kingdom. At 50, she previously served as mayor of Marrakech and has been entrusted with…