Fatima Sadiqi

Fatima Sadiqi
Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies

Fatima Sadiqi (فاطمة صديقي) is a senior professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Fez, Morocco.

Early life

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 (father of Amine and Hind), Malika (mother of Hassan and Hasnaa), Khadija (mother of Anass, Salwa and Zahraa), Hassan (father of Yassine and Wissam), Karim (father of Malak and Aya), Samira, Abdelhak (father of Taha and Isrâa) and Meryem. She is a mother of three sons: Tariq, Rachid and Yassine. Her home Berber village is called “Imshihn” (part of the Ayt Hssan tribe), Azilal, Morocco. Fatima Sadiqi is married to Moha Ennaji.^[1]

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.^[2] She earned a Teaching and Pedagogy Certificate from L’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rabat^[3] 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^[4] in 2003, Harvard University in 2007, and California State University at Pomona^[5] (2013-2014). Sadiqi won a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship (2015-2016) and is carrying research on Jihadism and gender in Washington DC. Her academic activities in the US are all on North African women, culture and society.^[6]

Research Interests

Sadiqi’s specializations and research interests are:

• Language issues
• Berber issues
• Language and gender
• Women’s and gender studies
• Global feminisms
• Globalization and social change
• Bridge-building across language and gender

Further readings

Single-authored books:

• 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. 

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