Fatima Sadiqi
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Fatima Sadiqi | |
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 Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies | |
| Born | 21 March 1953, Kenitra, Morocco |
| Notable work | Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco |
| Spouse | Moha Ennaji |
Fatima Sadiqi (Arabic: فاطمة صديقي) is a senior professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Fez, Morocco.[1]
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. 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.[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 and research
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[4] (2013-2014), and Visiting Professor, Gender Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich. Sadiqi was a Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow (2015-2016).
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
