![]() ![]() ![]() In parallel to her teaching at Mohamed V University since the 1980s, Mernissi developed a remarkable career as a sociologist, writer, novelist, artist, and civil society-promoter. She holds a Ph.D from Brandeis University and her thesis, which later became a book under the title Beyond the Veil, Male-Female Dynamics in Muslim Society (1975), won worldwide acclaim as the first book that deconstructed the patriarchal imaginary in the Muslim world. After independence, she pursued her higher studies at Mohamed V University, Rabat, then in France and the US. Her conservative father registered her in one of the first private mixed schools in a colonized Morocco. Biographical Sketch of Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015)įatema Mernissi, in whose name the MESA’s Book Award is given, was born in Fes, Morocco, in 1940. ![]()
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