Mediterranean Women Forum in Fez

The 4th annual International Forum of Mediterranean Women will be held from 25-27 June at the Palais de Congres in Fez.

Countries participating in this Forum include those bordering the Mediterranean as well as the United States, Finland, Canada, Belgium, India, Iran, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Senegal, Algeria and Mauritania. There will be simultaneous translation of the proceedings in French, Arabic and English.

Held in association with the Spirit of Fes Foundation, Fes Saiss, the ISIS Centre for Women and Development, and the University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, the Forum's Director is Fatima Sadiqi, who is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, Director of the ISIS Centre as well as Director General of the Spirit of Fes Foundation.

Fatima Sadiqi

The full programme will shortly be available at www.espritdefes.com. The theme of the Forum is Women and Knowledge in the Mediterrean. Here's an idea of the topics to be discussed:

- A Mediterranean Union and the rights of women in Europe and the Mediterranean
- The added value of political awareness of women in the region
- Economic knowledge and awareness in women
- Women and legal rights
- Women and academic knowledge
- Women, translation and literary knowledge
- Women and religious knowledge
- The problems of female migration in the region
- Women, genre and history
- Women and technology
- Women and writing

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