Moroccan feminist writer dies
Fatima Mernissi, the Moroccan sociologist and feminist who in 2011 was named among the most powerful women activists and campaigners in the world, has died. She was 75.
Reports in Morocco said that Fatima, lauded for her work on civil society, democracy and the digital revolution, died early on Monday.
Born in 1940, in Fes, Fatima grew up deep in the traditions that prevailed at the time in Morocco. She studied political science at Sorbonne University in Paris and earned her doctorate in sociology in 1974 in the United States.
She opted to return home where she took a post at Mohammad V University in Rabat and taught at the Faculté des Lettres.