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ISIS Center for Women and Development

(I.C.W.A.D.) was created on July 4th, 2006 in Fes, Morocco, by a group of Moroccan academics and researchers.  The ISIS Center aims at...

This book is both scholarly and personal. It is scholarly because it addresses and assesses the current Moroccan feminist discourses, a topic the author has been involved with for almost three decades, and it is personal because it brings along her Berber identity and seeks to reposition it vis-à-vis these feminist discourses. ...

Titre de l’ouvrage : Femmes et Nouveaux Médias dans la Régions Méditerranéenne
Série : Colloques
Direction : Fatima Sadiqi
Editeur : Fondation Hanns Seidel
Copyright : © Réservé à Fatima Sadiqi
Dépôt légal : 2012 MO 05-17

This volume deals with the complex but poorly understood relationship between women, gender, and language in Morocco, a Muslim, multilingual, multicultural, and developing country. The hypothesis on which the book is based is that an understanding of gender perception and women's agency can be achieved only by taking into account the structure of power in a specific culture and that language is an important component of this power.

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Women Writing Africa – The Northern Region portrays the ebb and flow of women’s lives in North Africa over the course of more than 5000 years. Over the millennia, from Egypt west to Morocco and Mauritania, women sometimes ruled empires and sometimes ruled the men who ruled empires. From Pharonic ancient Egypt through to the rise and fall of the Greco-Roman world and the advent of Islam, women challenged the proscriptive limits of custom and female propriety to lead armies, accumulate wealth, and exercise authority over kin and public affairs.

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This book, which is a contribution to dialogue among civilizations, calls on Arab and Western intellectuals to take dialogue as a responsibility on their shoulders. The first chapter deals with the necessity of dialogue among civilizations. The second chapter is concerned with the importance of the Arab contribution to dialogue.

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While this book focuses on the issue of migration and gender in Morocco, it discusses gender issues, particularly the situation of the women left behind by male migrants. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter reviews the theories of migration as a worldwide phenomenon and the gender issues involved therein. Chapter 2 concerns itself with theories of women-headed households. Chapter 3 deals with the socioeconomic and political context in Morocco. Chapter 4 presents the social situation of women and their different categories in Morocco.

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Ce volume regroupe les interventions présentées lors du colloque international «Femmes Méditerranéennes et leurs Droits», organisé les 28, 29, et 30 Avril 2005 à Fès sous le Haut Patronage de Sa Majesté le Roi Mohamed VI par L’Association Fès-Saiss et L’Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, en partenariat avec le Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Femme. Ledit colloque est une continuation du colloque international «Femmes Méditerranéennes» organisé par Fès-Saiss les 24, 25, et 26 avril 2003 et dont les Actes ont été publiés en Novembre 2003.

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The ultimate aim of this book has been to provide an idea of the diversity and dynamics of the images of women in Abdullah Bashrahil's poetry. The book also aims to disentangle some of the stereotypes that surround Arab- Muslim- women through an analysis of Bashrahil's poems. The main broad conclusions that may be drawn from the chapters of this book may be summarized in the following points...

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" Grammaire du Berbère " is written in French by Fatima Sadiqi. It was published in 1997 by L’Harmattan. The book is written for linguistics students, teachers, researchers, as well as the interested readers. " Grammaire du Berbère " contains four chapters: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Each of these chapters focuses on a specific aspect of what constitutes ‘Berber grammar’.

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This volume contains articles  in English, Arabic, and French by scholars from various Mediterranean countries on topics relating to women and politics, women and globalization, women and civil society, women and law, women and war, etc. All the papers were presented during the international conference that Fes-Saiss Association organized in April 24-26, 2003 under the scientific direction of Fatima Sadiqi.

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"Language and Gender in the Arab World" is edited by Margot Badran, Fatima Sadiqi, and Linda Stump Rashidi. It is written in three languages: English, French, and Arabic and was published by Fedala in 2002. The book is the 9^th issue of the international journal "Languages and Linguistics" which is directed by Moha Ennaji and whose Editor-in Chief is Fatima Sadiqi.

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"Feminist Movements: Origins and Orientations" is a tri-lingual (Arabic, French and English) collection of papers presented during the international conference which carries the same name and which was organized by the Center for Studies and Research on Women on May 13-15 1999.

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The grammar of Amazigh presented in this book is a simplified description of the language. Its is aimed at faciliting the standardization of Amazigh at a time when the teaching of the language has become a reality.
 The book contains three major chapters: phonolgy, morphology, and syntax. The chapters are inter-related in the sense that each one of them feeds into the others.
 

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"Applications of Modern Linguistics " is co-authored by Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi and prefaced by Joshua Fishman. The book was written in English in 1994 and was published in Casablanca by Afrique-Orient. " Applications of Modern Linguistics " is a continuation of " Introduction to Modern Linguistics ".

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" Introduction to Modern Linguistics " is co-authored by Fatima Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji in 1992. it is published in Casablanca by Afrique –Orient. The book is written in English and is prefaced by Joseph Emonds. " Introduction to Modern Linguistics " is the first Moroccan textbook on linguistics; it has been re-edited in 1998. the book is written for university students in Morocco, as well as in the rest of Arab-Muslim countries. It introduces the major components of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax.

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" Studies in Berber Syntax " is written in English by Fatima Sadiqi. It was published in 1986 by Königshausen and Neumann (Germany). The book is the first (English-written) analysis on Berber syntax in Morocco. It is based on the author’s PhD thesis ‘The Complex Sentence in Berber: a Syntactic Study” which was completed under the supervision of late Professor David Kilby in 1982.

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