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Ibtissame Betty Lachgar

Campaigns to re-appropriate the public space and women's bodies in Morocco

Created by Ibtissame Betty Lachgar 2134 days ago

...of their agency and achievements. The movement also wanted to recognize and honour leading women such as Saida Al-Mabahi, Dihya El kahina, Fatima Mernissi, Tin Hinan, Shamsi Az-ziwayya...

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Foundation's Team

Call for Abstracts and Articles: Conference on Celebrating Arab Women

Created by Foundation's Team 1554 days ago

...history, and have thus been effective agents of change. Examples are authors and historians, such as Huda Shaarawi, Nawal El Saadawi, and Fatima Mernissi, and writers like Sahar Khali...

Foundation's Team

Call for Papers: Conference Women in Revolt (Univ. Paris 1, February 2021)

Created by Foundation's Team 1595 days ago

...es, be they fighters like Leila Khaled (Palestine) or Djamila Bouhired (Algeria), or feminist intellectuals like Nawal Saadaoui (Egypt) or Fatima Mernissi (Morocco). This work on women...

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Bochra Laghssais

Manifestation of Empowerment in Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

Created by Bochra Laghssais 937 days ago

...n empowerment and its manifestation in Fatima Mernissi’s (1994) book Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. Mernissi describes her early childhood...l mentality of that time period, women in the Mernissi harem found their own ways to...