NESA Center alumna Dr. Fatima Sadiqi will deliver a lecture titled "Daesh Ideology in the Maghreb: A Reaction to Homegrown Modernity?" tomorrow, May 29, at 11:00AM CST/12:00PM EST/5:00PM Morocco Time via Zoom.

The lecture is part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2024-2025 season, "Lives in the Margins: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East."

Based on extensive fieldwork data, this presentation argues that Daesh’s radicalized gender regime does not only target Western modernity; it also targets a homegrown modernity in the Maghreb. While the former is historically built on the exclusion of religion, the latter is built on the reform of Islamic law. Women’s legal rights in the Maghreb constitute a solid entry point to examine and explain the rise of Daesh ideology in the Maghreb. While Dr. Sadiqi situates her various informants within a larger political history, this presentation is more geared towards conceptual ideology and is aimed at understanding the depth and affect of this ideology.

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Dr. Fatima Sadiqi is a Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies. She is affiliated to the University of Fès and currently a Visiting Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. In 1998, she founded the first Moroccan Centre for Studies and Research on Women, and in 2000, she founded the first Graduate Program on Gender Studies. In 2018 she was elected President of the Association of Middle Eastern Studies (AMEWS). Her main academic interests reside in the intersection between language and gender. Her books include Grammaire du berbère (L’Harmattan, 1997), Women, Gender and Language in Morocco (Brill, 2003), Women’s Activism and the Public Sphere: Local/ Global Linkages (Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2006), Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2013), Moroccan Feminist Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Women’s Movements in the Post - “Arab Spring” North Africa (2016). Sadiqi’s latest book on Women and the Codification of the Amazigh Language will be released in 2024 by Lexington Books (Maryland, USA).

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