Library weekly: Fatema Mernissi

Fatima Merinissi (Source: Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-4.0)On 30 November 2015, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist Fatema Mernissi died in Rabat at the age of 75. Her legacy can be greatly attributed to her scholarly and literary contributions to the early Islamic feminist movement. She tackled issues such as Eurocentrism, intersectionality, transnationalism and global feminism in her publications and public lectures. Fatema Mernissi  is featured in our Library Weekly.