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ABOUT
Fatima Sadiqi is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies (University of Fez, Morocco); her work focuses on women’s issues in modern North Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean world. She is author and editor of numerous volumes and journal issues, including Women, Gender and Language (Brill 2013), Women’s Activism and the Public Sphere: Local/Global Linkages (Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 2006), Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean (Routledge 2013), Moroccan Feminist Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), and Women’s Movements and Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa. New Strategies and A Need for a Comparative Perspective. Currently Professor Sadiqi is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center (2015-2016) and her upcoming book will focus on Jihadism and the escalation of violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Terrorism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Specialties
Gender And Women's Studies In North Africa
Women In North Africa, Jihadism And Gender
Languages
English (advanced)
French (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Berber (advanced)
Spanish (elementary)
Abstracts
The Role of the Military Men in the Emancipation of Moroccan Women
Launching the First Gender Studies Program
