<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div class="ydp31d0a3a4yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div> <div><div class="ydp95715f4cyahoo-style-wrap" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Sorry about any cross-sharing</b></div></div><div><br></div></div><div id="ydpf363b6fayahoo_quoted_5114119051" class="ydpf363b6fayahoo_quoted" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><div>----- Message transmis -----</div><div><b>De :</b> Hatoon Alfassi <hatoon.alfassi@manchester.ac.uk></div><div><b>À :</b> Fatima Siddiqui <fatima.siddiqui@student.manchester.ac.uk></div><div><b>Cc :</b> Zahia Smail salhi <zahia.smailsalhi@manchester.ac.uk>; Hatoon Ajwad A ALFASSI <hatoon@gmail.com></div><div><b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 15 février 2022, 12:37:59 UTC+1</div><div><b>Objet :</b> Reminder: Professor Fatima Sadiqi, Amazigh Women’s Art. Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts Series</div><div><br></div><div><div id="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676"><div class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676WordSection1"><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal">Dear friends and colleagues,</p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Sans;">This is a reminder of tomorrow’s lecture 4 of the Women and Gender Forum and an opportunity to send a couple of Dr Sadiqi’s relevant articles.</span></p><div> </div><div><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; font-family: sans-serif;">University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series</span></b></div><p align="center" class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: center; line-height: 14.95px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center; line-height: 14.95px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: 14.95px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Amazigh Women’s Art: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">A Reading of Amazigh Women’s Carpet Designs</span></b></div><p align="center" class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676emailstyle15"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: sans-serif;">By Professor </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: sans-serif;">Fatima Sadiqi (<span style="color: black;">The University Fes, Morocco)</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: black;"></span></b></p><p align="center" class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Wednesday 16 February 2022, 17:00 GMT</span></b></p><p align="center" class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">on Zoom:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><a href="https://zoom.us/j/98267444976" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 102, 212); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">https://zoom.us/j/98267444976</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><p align="center" class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><p align="center" class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB"><img border="0" id="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676_x0000_i1025" src="cid:8nkykhjx8Ye4Xkh4ZCDS" style="width: 267px; max-width: 267px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" class="yahoo-loading"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Abstract: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;">Amazigh women have woven carpets since time immemorial. Some of the carpet designs they imagined and created over the centuries were replicated in body adornments, such as henna, tattoos, and in clothing. The designs fascinated and inspired scholars and ordinary people, but it is only in the postcolonial era that serious readings of these designs started to manifest. The designs have been read as cultural markers, as identity markers, and as feminine art. Illuminating as they are, these readings tend to consider the designs as creative feminine legacies that need to be preserved. In this presentation, I build on these readings to present the designs as a historical artistic archive that continues to grow. They encode women’s imagination of sexuality and spirituality and may well be at the root of the codification and stabilization of the Amazigh language.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;">Bio:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;"> <b>Fatima Sadiqi</b> is a Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies affiliated to the University of Fez. <span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">In 1998, s</span>he <span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">founded the first Moroccan Centre for Studies and Research on Women, and in 2000, she founded </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: acumin-pro; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">the first Graduate Program on Gender Studies at the University of Fez. In </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2006, she founded the Isis Centre for Women and Development.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;">Among her many books are <i>Women, Gender and Language </i>(Brill, 2003), <i>Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean</i> (Routledge, 2013), <i>Moroccan Feminist Discourses </i>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and <i>Women’s Movements in the Post - “Arab Spring” North Africa</i> (2016). Sadiqi’s work has been supported by numerous prestigious awards and fellowships from Harvard University, The Woodrow Wilson Center, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and Fulbright. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;">She is currently working on Amazigh women’s art.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;"> She is also the author of: </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);">Moroccan</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);"> <i>Feminist Discourses</i> </span></b><a href="http://goo.gl/6j9TcJ" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif;">http://goo.gl/6j9TcJ</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);">Women’s Movements in Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);"> </span></b><a href="http://goo.gl/Hfkz2R" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif;">http://goo.gl/Hfkz2R</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);">Women, Language, and Gender in Morocco </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 172, 237);"> </span></b><a href="https://goo.gl/n2Goc4" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif;">https://goo.gl/n2Goc4</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif;">Current Book Project:<span style="color: rgb(112, 172, 237);"> <i>The Syntax of Berber Women’s Artistic Designs</i></span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif;">Concept of the Series: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;">Exploring the imagination and representation of women in history and today is a fully-fledged ambition that this series of lectures would like to explore through MENA women’s work in art, literature, history, archaeology, and social sciences, along with their representation and perception in the works of non-MENA academics.</span></div><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: New serif; font-size: 12pt;">The series includes speakers from the MENA region as well as from other parts of the globe. The meeting point of these speakers is their research on the women of this region. Through their multi- and interdisciplinary distinctive, innovative, and creative approaches to their fields, they deconstruct the stereotypes of Muslim women and emphasize their diversity. This region, which comprises the Arab World and a large part of the Islamic World, is considered today as one of the hottest spots in world politics and economy, but as usual, women are the least visible participants in and yet the most affected by the consequences of political and economic crises. More positively, they are central to the waves of social change taking place in this region at a dizzying speed.</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: New serif; font-size: 12pt;">The series, which is envisaged as a platform for debate among academics, students, and the general public with interest in the broader theme of Women and Gender in MENA, started on 1 December 2021 and will run through to the end of the academic year in 2022 on the zoom platform.</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: New serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: New serif; font-size: 12pt;">The organizers of this lecture series are two women and gender specialist. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and Dr Hatoon Alfassi is visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Alfassi was formerly a faculty at the International Affairs Department of Qatar University, and the History Department of King Saud University. Both are very happy to invite you to engage in a Women and Gender Discussion which defeats geographical boundaries and extends the opportunity to participants from everywhere in the world.</span></p><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: Sans;">Looking forward to seeing you all there.</span></div><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Sans;">Best, </span><span style="font-family: Sans;">Hatoon and Zahia</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Hatoon Ajwad AL FASSI (Ph.D)</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Associate Professor of Women’s History</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Honorary Fellow of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">University of Manchester.</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (<i>JMEWS</i>).</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Columnist @ AlRiyadh</span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.alriyadh.com/file/603" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">http://www.alriyadh.com/file/603</span></a></span></p><p class="ydpf363b6fayiv4477149676MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">P.O. 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