Journalist
"Today
my only goal is to win the battle against cancer. I try to keep inside of me the prospect of healing
that is at the end of the tunnel”, says Samira El Fazazi. The weather anchor of the first Moroccan TV
channel “Al Aoula'” has been fighting cancer since 2012. Forced to interrupt
her activity, she had to undergo repeated surgery, chemotherapy sessions and
the heavy consequences of the treatment. Samira El Fazazi has discovered a great inner
strength and evokes her disease with dignity: "To fight cancer, one needs
to have nerves of steel. As a
public figure, she decided early on to talk about it in the media: "I
wanted to break a taboo. To cope,
one must de-dramatize and say that life continues during treatment. It is often thought that cancer leads to death
but many people are doing well! To face this ordeal, Samira was surrounded by her husband, her two
daughters, Lina and Aya, her family and friends: "At first they were in a
total state of shock. I minimized
the disease to protect them. They no longer see me as a sick person”. While smiling, she says that “Faith
was essential”. Samira El Fazazi grew up in the city of Nador. Her father, a civil servant in charge of law
enforcement imagined her to be a future doctor. Samira made dreams in which she
was wearing a lawyer’s robe. She studied law in Rabat but was irresistibly attracted by the media world. She joined the editorial team of the Arabic
language news on the first TV channel before becoming "Mrs.
weather." Arcus,
cirrus, asperatus: after getting
some training at the
National Meteorological Center, the clouds had no secrets any longer for her. "It's an exciting profession that I look
forward to resume within a great team", she concludes.