Fatema Mernissi

Doctor of Sociology and lecturer at the Institut Universitaire de Recherche Scientifique of the Mohamed V University in Rabat. She was an advisor with several international organisations such as the UNESCO, BIT, etc., and her specialisation, up until the Gulf War, was the study of women under Islam.

Since then, she concentrated her attention on studying civil society and is currently working on deciphering the impact of the media via satellite on the dynamics of the Arab world.

Her various published works include a novel, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Perseus Publishing, 1995), which has been translated into twenty-three languages and for which the film rights have been sold. The rest of her work comprises essays, all translated into the most widespread languages: Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women, The Forgotten Queens of Islam and Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems, among others.

She died in Rabat on 30 November 2015.