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Featured Consortium Member: Dr. Fatima Sadiqi
Fatima Sadiqi is a former Fulbright Scholar
and recipient of a Harvard Fellowship. She is
Senior Professor of Linguistics University of Fez in
Morocco, director of the Isis Centre for Women
and Development, and co‐founder of the
International Institute of Languages and
Linguistics. Dr. Sadiqi has written extensively on
Moroccan languages and Moroccan women’s
issues. She is the author of Women, Gender, and
Language in Morocco (Brill, 2003), Grammaire du
Berbère (L’Harmattan, 1997), Images on Women in
Abdullah Bashrahil’s Poetry (The Beirut Institute:
2004). She has also edited and co‐edited a number
of volumes, including Migration and Gender in
Morocco (with Moha Ennaji, Red Sea Press: 2008)
and Women Writing Africa. The Northern Region
(with Amira Nowaira, Azza El Kholy and Moha
Ennaji, The Feminist Press, CUNY). Her article on “Morocco” in Women’s Rights in the Middle East and
North Africa (Freedom House and Roman & Littlefield) will be published in March 2010. Recently Dr.
Sadiqi was elected President of Morocco's National Union of Feminine Associations.
Women in the Middle East and North Africa:
Agents of Change
By Fatima Saqiqi and Moha Ennaji
This book examines the position of women in the
contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region
shares many commonalities with relation to women
that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space‐based
patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a
smooth co‐existence of tradition and modernity, a
transitional stage in development, and multilingualism/
multiculturalism.
Experts from within the region and from outside
provide both theoretical angles and case studies,
drawing on fieldwork from Egypt, Oman, Palestine,
Israel, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and
Spain. Bringing to light often marginalized topics and
issues, the book underlines the importance of
respecting specificities when judging societies and
hints at possible ways of promoting the MENA region.
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