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This article is about the Moroccan weekly. For the French journal, see Tel Quel.

A cover of October 20th 2006

TelQuel (French: for as is) (slogan:Morocco as it is), is a French-language Moroccan weekly magazine. It is privately owned, and has an independent and often critical editorial line towards the Moroccan government. It took its name from the French literary journal Tel Quel, published from 1960 to 1982. Its present director of publication is Ahmed Benchemsi. The editor-in-chief is Karim Boukhari, who was editor before replacing Driss Ksikes as editor-in-chief in 2006.

TelQuel has been repeatedly subjected to harassment and pressures from the Moroccan government, according to press freedom watchdogs such as Reporters without Borders (RSF).^[1] It was convicted in 2005 on charges of defamation, in what the RSF described as a political trial.^[2]

TelQuel now has a Moroccan Arabic edition, Nichane.

On 1 August 2009, the Moroccan government seized an edition of TelQuel, following its inclusion of an opinion poll conducted jointly with French newspaper Le Monde and looking at the performance of King Mohammed VI over the first ten years of his reign. Although 91% viewed his performance favourably, the authorities considered this to be an unsuitable topic for coverage and promptly banned publication of the survey, provoking a furious reaction from the press and Web users.^[3]