Fatima Sadiqi is professor of linguistics at the University of Fez, and founder and president of the Center for Research on Women has a great article about the women’s movement.
The women’s movement in Morocco — which now bridges secular and religious communities — is setting an example of the power of social thought in a traditional society. Re-visiting traditional interpretations of Scripture is not the end of the story. Out of this ferment, Morocco has not only revised its Family Law, but also fundamental laws governing nationality, media ownership, and political organisations.
Women advocacy has also shaped a new approach to poverty alleviation in Morocco, in the form of the National Initiative for Human Development, which integrates efforts to improve education with better sanitation and housing. It is no exaggeration to say that the Moroccan women’s movement has become the cutting edge of reform, engaging Islamisation, modernisation, democratisation, and feminism.
Read the story here: Morocco’s veiled feminists
Tags: Morocco Fes, Maghreb news
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