Fatima Sadiqi

Fatima Sadiqi, now a senior professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Fez, Morocco, has had multiple identities in her long academic journey. Along with her growth and education, Dr. Sadiqi gradually developed an intellectual sensitivity to both language and gender identities. She studied Berber verb and the complex sentence structure in Berber when pursuing Master's and Ph.D. degrees in England and wrote the first grammar system of Berber. In the 1990s, Dr. Sadiqi built the first-ever Center for Studies and Research on Women in Morocco and developed the postgraduate program on gender studies in 2000. She also advocated for policy reformation to advance Moroccan women's rights and firmly practices her teaching and research philosophy nowadays, which made her an undoubted role model for women advocates in Morocco and even the Arabic world.