Active in social and political causes, she was a founding member of La Caravane Civique, a group of Moroccan intellectuals dedicated to the education of rural Moroccan women.įatima’s work centered on gender relations in Morocco and other Arab Muslim societies. Fatima returned to Rabat to teach at Mohammed V University in the Faculté des Lettres. She then studied sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat, followed by graduate studies at the Sorbonne, and a PhD at Brandeis University in the US. Although her mother and grandmother were illiterate, Fatima was encouraged to attend Qur’anic and nationalist schools, where she studied alongside boys.
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