20 may 2015 - Rabat- Moroccan Myriam Adnani is poised to become the first Muslim female pilot in Europe. The Moroccan woman, who was born in the Netherlands, has just completed a course that allows her to become a commercial pilot.
The 23-year-old shared the news with her friends on her Facebook page.
“After almost two years I have completed the entire course to become a commercial pilot. From theory in Hoofddorp to flying in the U.S. and Belgium and the last course on the Boeing 737. I’m feeling so happy and blessed,” she said.
Myriam was born in July 1991 in the Netherlands, where she spent her school years until she joined Amsterdam’s Oxford Aviation Academy. The young woman also enrolled in a theoretical course in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands, as well as a training course in the United States and Belgium.
Myriam Adnani becomes the second Moroccan woman to enter history in this field, over sixty years after another Moroccan and Arab woman became a licensed pilot in the 1950s.
In 1952 while Morocco was still under the French protectorate, Touria Chaoui became the first Moroccan and Arab woman to become a pilot.
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