Word: yakoubi
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...Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah Cherkaoui, 40; shy Fatima Zorah picked Prince Moulay Ali el Alaoui, 38, a first cousin and the royal family's shrewdest business brain. Princess Aisha's choice: El Hassan ben Abdelaziz al Yakoubi, 27 (Aisha is 31), a handsome gentleman farmer whose wealthy businessman father is an old friend of the royal family...
...business suit while looking on from his pink throne. The three princesses all went through intricate prenuptial purification ceremonies, including a ritual dousing administered by female attendants. At the ceremony itself, they all wore veils. For Lalla Aisha, especially, the choice of husbands seemed felicitous. Her husband, Hassan al Yakoubi, is known as a widely traveled, fun-loving sportsman, more accustomed than most Moroccan men to the ways of emancipated women...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...
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