Fatima Sadiqi is a former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of a Harvard Fellowship. She is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at the University of Fez, director of the Isis Centre for Women and Development, and co-founder of the International Institute of Languages and Linguistics (INLAC: www.inlac.net). Fatima 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, and her co-edited volume Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change” will be published by Routledge in May 2010.  Recently Dr. Sadiqi was elected President of Morocco's National Union of Feminine Associations.

Website:  www.fatimasadiqi.on.ma

Email : sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr