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2006-07 Research Associates and Visiting Faculty

Fatima Sadiqi

Visiting Professor of Women's Studies and Islamic Religious Studies

email: fsadiqi@hds.harvard.edu   phone: 617.384.8336

Fatima Sadiqi is president of the Centre for Studies and Research on Women, director of the graduate unit "Gender Studies," and Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies in the Department of English at Fes University. She has conducted research in Morocco and has written extensively on women, gender, Islam, and language in that country. She is the author of  four books: Images of Women in Abdullah Bashrahil's Poetry (Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2004); Women, Gender and Language in Morocco (Brill Academic Press, 2003); Grammaire du Berbère (L'Harmattan , 1997); and Studies in Berber Syntax (Konigshaussen and Neumann, 1986). She is co-author and editor of a number of volumes, among them the Northern volume Women Writing Africa, to be released in 2007 by Feminist Press. She has written numerous articles in Moroccan and international refereed journals including her latest, "Morocco's Veiled Feminists" published in the online journal, Project Syndicate. Professor Sadiqi writes and lectures in English, French, and Arabic. She is also involved in promoting Berber, the indigenous language, and is co-author of the first textbook on teaching Berber in Moroccan schools.

Dr. Sadiqi has been awarded four Fulbright postdoctoral grants to conduct research at Washington University (summer 1991), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (summer 1999), Lasell College (spring 2004), and Rutgers University (summer 2005). She has organized four international conferences: "Feminist Movements: Origins and Orientations" (1999), "Women and Development" (2000), "Women and Education" (2003), "Mediterranean Women" (2004), and "Mediterranean Women and their Rights" (2005). She is involved in various Moroccan and international associations and networks fighting violence against women (she is the national coordinator of SafetyNET). She has also served on a wide variety of national and international committees, such as the Language-Based Area Studies Initiative for China, Japan, Eastern Europe, and the Arabic Speaking World (United Kingdom).

Dr. Sadiqi is teaching a spring 2006 course, "Discovering the Islamic City of Fes," to a group of Darmouth College students.

course: Language, Gender, and Islam in North Africa

Photograph: David Carlson.