Fatima Sadiqi is the daughter of Haj Mohamed Ben Mohamed ou Lahcen Sadiqi and Hajja Fadma Bent Haj Ahmed N’ayt Bourhim. Her father was a military officer of rural origin. Sadiqi was born in Kenitra, Morocco as the eldest of nine children : Mohamed, Malika, Khadija, Hassan, Karim, Samira, Abdelhak and Meryem. She is a mother of three sons: Tariq, Rachid and Yassine. Her home Amazigh village is called “Imshihn” (part of the Ayt Hssan tribe), Azilal, Morocco. Fatima Sadiqi is married to Moha Ennaji.
Education
Sadiqi received her primary education in Nador, junior secondary school education in Taourirt, and high school education in Oujda. From 1971 to 1976, she studied English language and literature at the Faculty of Letters, Rabat. She earned a Teaching and Pedagogy Certificate from L’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rabat in 1977. From 1979 to 1982, she studied Theoretical Linguistics at Essex University, Great Britain, where she earned an MA and a PhD on The Verb in Berber and The Syntax of the Complex Sentence in Berber, respectively.
Career
Sadiqi is a Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez. She taught syntax, morphology, phonology, gender studies, transnational feminisms and media. Sadiqi also taught at US universities such as the University of Mansfield in 2003, Harvard University in 2007, California State University at Pomona (2013-2014), and Visiting Professor, Gender Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich. Sadiqi is a Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow.
Research Interests
Sadiqi’s specializations and research interests are:
Gender and Women’s Studies in North Africa
Transnational and global feminisms
Berber Studies
globalization and social change
Main publications
Daesh Ideology and Women’s Legal Rights. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
Moroccan Feminist Discourses. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.
Images of Women in Abdullah Bashrahil’s Poetry. Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. 2004.
Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco (2nd ed.). Brill Academic Publishers. 2009 [2003]. Largely acclaimed as the first international book on language and gender in the MENA region. Reviewed for various international and refereed journals such as Gender and language, International Sociology, Journal of Pragmatics, and International Studies.
Grammaire du berbère (in French). Paris: L’Harmattan. 1997. (First grammar of its kind by a native speaker of the language.)
Studies in Berber syntax. Germany: Königshaussen and Neumann. 1986.
Most Recent Academic Articles
”The Big Absent in the Moroccan Feminist Movements: The Berber Dimension”. In North Africa Transition and Emerging Actors. Berber Movements. Anna Maria Di Tolla & Ersilia Francesca (eds.), Studi Maghrebini, "L'Orientale", 2017.
”The Moroccan Feminist Movement (1946-2014) (2017). In Balghis Badri & Aili Tripp (eds). Women's Activism in Africa: Struggles for Rights and Representation.
”A Genesis of Gender and Women’s Studies in Morocco” (2017). In Rita Stephan, and Mounira Charrad (Eds.) Women Rising. New York : New York University Press.
”Women’s Perceptions of Islam in Today’s Morocco”. Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Issue 11. Fall 2016.
”Emerging Amazigh Feminist Nongovernmental NGOs” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 2016. 12(1): 122-125.
”Feminization of Authority in Morocco” (2015). In Gender, Power, Democracy, edited by Mino Vianello and Mary Hawkesworth. 2014. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
”Women’s Organizing in Morocco in Light of A Post-Arab Spring Moment and an Islamist Government” (2015). In Zeina Zaatari (ed.) Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.S upplement XI. Political-Social Movements: Community Based.
”The Center: A New Post-Arab Spring Space for Women’s Rights” (2016). In Women’s Movements in the Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa. In F. Sadiqi, ed.
“The Marginalization of Moroccan Women in Society and the Media” (2015). In Ennaji, M. ed. Minorities and Women in North Africa. Trenton: The Red Sea Press.
“Berber and Language Politics in the Moroccan Educational System” (2014), in Moha Ennaji (ed) Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa. London: Routledge.
“The Potential Within: Progressive Ijtihad in the Practice Moroccan Judges’ Adjucations on Shiqaq (discord) Divorce” (2013), in Elisa Ada Giunchi (ed) Adjucating Family Law in Muslim Courts.
“Women’s NGOs and the Struggle for Democracy in Morocco” (2013), in Galia Golan and Walid Salem (eds) Non-State Actors in the Middle East. Factors for Peace and Democracy. London: Routledge.
”Women and Islam in Morocco” (2013), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women.
”Family Law Changes in Morocco”. Interview. Every woman Program. Al Jazeera International. Doha (Qatar), March 7, 2008.
”How I became a Leading Voice for Moroccan Women”. Interviewed by Saundra Satterlee for the Guardian Weekly.London, January 4, 2008.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/04/morocco-women
”Women’s Words. A Moroccan Scholar-Activist Links Language and Power”. Interviewed by Aimee Dowl. Ms Magazine. Summer Issue, 2007.http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2007/language.asp
Amazigh TV debate: discussion about Amazigh (Berber) Culture and Politics. March 2007.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0baLOXQSU
Radio debate: Islam and Feminism (with Amina Wadud from the US and Ziba Mir-Husseini from England). Amsterdam, May 19, 2005. http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/5007
