The magazine was first published in October 1995[3] under the name of La Citadine.[4] The founder of the magazine was Abdellah Khizrane.[5]
It was renamed as Citadine in May 1997.[4] The magazine is based in Casablanca.[4] The publication of Citadine and Femmes du Maroc, another francophone women's magazine, was significant in that it represented an important development in the Moroccan society.[6][7]
The publisher and owner of the magazine is Lilas Press.[3][8] The target audience of the magazine, published in French, is young women.[3][9] It promotes a Western ideal of beauty.[4] However, the magazine also covered critical articles in the 1990s on sexual exploitation, domestic violence and harassment at schools against women.[10]
Keltoum Ghazali served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[3] Ilham Benzakour also served in the post in the mid-2000s.[2]