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Fatema Mernissi
Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
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culture · Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (1940–2015) · writer · essayist · sociologist · university teacher · non-fiction writer · women's rights activist · feminist · also Fatema Mernissi, Fatna Aït Sabbah, Fatima Mernissi, Fátima Mernessi, Mernissi
Born 1 January 1940 · Died 30 November 2015 · Q242376
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo Noticias en Español: El harén político: Fatema Mernissi y el feminismo islámico
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2025· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Fatema Mernissi for Our Times
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2022· 1 entry
Middle East Eye: Maroc : la vie et l’œuvre de Fatema Mernissi portées à l’écran par Mohammed Abderrahman Tazi
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2021· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Fatema Mernissi and Complete Book Reviews
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2017· 1 entry
The Middle East Studies Association created the Fatema Mernissi Book Award to "recognize outstanding scholarship in studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience"
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2015· 5 entries
The Express Tribune: Fatema Mernissi, founder of Islamic feminism, dies at 75
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Scroll: Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015): A dreamer who tried to bring Asia and Africa together
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JeuneAfrique: Adieu à Fatema Mernissi, la Shéhérazade marocaine
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publico: Morreu a feminista marroquina Fatema Mernissi
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Died 2015-11-30.
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (2004).
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Was awarded the Erasmus Prize, alongside Sadik Al-Asm and Abdolkarim Soroush
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2003).
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Mernissi was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award, along with Susan Sontag
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1994· 1 entry
Mernissi published a fictional memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (in the US, the book was originally titled The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood, and is still known by that title in the UK)
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1984· 1 entry
Contributed the text "The merchant's daughter and the son of the sultan" to the anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan
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1975· 1 entry
Fatima Mernissi's first book, Beyond the Veil, was published, and it was considered revolutionary
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1966· 1 entry
Then she transferred to Brandeis University in 1970, where she gained her doctorate in 1973
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-01-01.
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