Sadiqi fatima

Sadiqi fatima

Early Life

Fatima Sadiqi was born to a military officer of rural origin and a rural woman from Maskaouen (Azilal, Morocco). She is the eldest of 9 children and a mother of three. Her home Amazigh village is called “Imshihn” (High Atlas, Morocco).

Education

Sadiqi received her primary education in Nador, junior secondary school education in Taourirt, and high school education in Oujda. She studied English language and literature at the Faculty of Letters, Rabat, and earned a Certificate from L’Ecole Normale Supérieure in the same city. Sadiqi completed her postgraduate studies in Theoretical Linguistics at Essex University, Great Britain, where she earned an MA and a PhD on the Syntax of Amazigh, which developed into the first grammar of Amazigh by a native speaker of this language.

Career

• Sadiqi’s research focuses on the Amazigh language and Women’s and Gender issues in North Africa. As a linguist, Sadiqi has done fieldwork mainly in Morocco and was an active member at E.C.O.S.S.O.C (UN). .
• In 1997 she wrote Grammaire du Berbère, published by (L’Harmattan). .
• In the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Sadiqi contributed articles to periodicals and other publications on women and language in Morocco and North Africa from a contemporary and a historical perspective. In 2003 she wrote Women, Gender and Language in Morocco, published by Brill Academic Publisher.
• In 2003 she wrote Women, Gender and Language in Morocco, published by Brill Academic Publisher.
• In 2014, she wrote Moroccan Feminist Discourses (published by Palgrave Macmillan).
• In 2016, she wrote Women’s Movements in the Post-‘Arab Spring’ North Africa (also published by Palgrave Macmillan).
• Sadiqi is finalizing a book on Women and the Codification of the Amazigh Language, to be published by Lexington.

Membership and Accomplishments

• In 1997 Sadiqi created the Center for Studies and Research on Women at the Faculty des letters Dhar El Mehraz and in 2000 the first graduate unit Gender Studies .
• In 2006, she was a fellow at Harvard University
• In 2006, she was appointed to the Executive Board of the Royal Institute for Berber (Amazigh) Culture .
• In 2007, Sadiqi earned a Harvard Fellowship to research Berber women’s legacies from a feminist perspective.
• In 2007 she was nominated Director General of the Fondation Esprit de Fez _http://www.sezamemag.net/Le-14-eme-festival-de-Fes-des-musiques-sacrees-du-monde-du-16-au-14-juin-2008_a1376.html
• In 2011 Sadiqi co-founded with Moha Ennaji the International Institute of Languages and Cultures in Fez.

Further readings

• Images of Women in Abdullah Bashrahil’s Arab Institute for Research and Publishing Beirut, 2004.
• Studies in Berber Syntax. Königshaussen and Neumann, 1986.
• Migration and Gender in Morocco (with Moha Ennaji). Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2008.
• A Grammar of Berber (with Moha Ennaji). Mohammédia: Imprimerie Fédala, 2004.
• Manual For Teaching Berber (with Moha Ennaji). Casablanca: Fondation BMCE, 2004.
• Applications of Modern Linguistics (with Moha Ennaji). Casablanca : Afrique Orient, 1994.
• Introduction to Modern Linguistics (with Moha Ennaji). Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1992. First textbook of linguistics by authors from the MENA region.
• Gender and Violence in the Middle East. Co-editor with Moha Ennaji, and Contributor (London, Routledge, 2011).
• Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Agents of Change. Co-editor with Moha Ennaji, and Contributor

(London: Routledge, 2011).

• Femmes Marginalisées et Insertion Sociale. Editor and Contributor (Fez: Imprimerie Imagerie Pub Neon, 2010).
• Women Writing Africa. The Northern Region. Co-editor with Amira Nouaira, Azza El Khouly, Moha Ennaji, and Contributor (New York: The Feminist Press, 2009). The French version of this anthology will be published by Karthala (Paris) in 2012.
• Femmes et Education dans la Région Méditerranéenne. Co-editor with Moha Ennaji, and Contributor (Fez: Imprimerie Sipama, 2007).
• Women’s Activism and the Public Sphere: Local/Global Linkages. Special Issue. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Co-editor with Valentine Moghaddam, and Contributor, vol. 2, no 2. (Spring 2006).
• Femmes Méditerranéennes et Leurs Droits. Editor and Contributor (Mohammédia : Imprimerie Fédala, 2006).
• Femmes et Développement. Editor and Contributor (Rabat : Publications of Tarik Ibn Zyad, 2006).

References

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