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----- Message transmis -----De : Hatoon Alfassi <hatoon.alfassi at manchester.ac.uk>À : Fatima Siddiqui <fatima.siddiqui at student.manchester.ac.uk>Cc : Zahia Smail salhi <zahia.smailsalhi at manchester.ac.uk>; Hatoon Ajwad A ALFASSI <hatoon at gmail.com>Envoyé : mardi 15 février 2022, 12:37:59 UTC+1Objet : Reminder: Professor Fatima Sadiqi, Amazigh Women’s Art. Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts Series

Dear friends and colleagues,

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.
  University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
  Amazigh Women’s Art: A Reading of Amazigh Women’s Carpet Designs
By Professor Fatima Sadiqi (The University Fes, Morocco)

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 17:00 GMT

on Zoom:   https://zoom.us/j/98267444976

  


Abstract: 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. 
Bio: Fatima Sadiqi is a Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies affiliated to the University of Fez. 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 at the University of Fez. In 2006, she founded the Isis Centre for Women and Development.

Among her many books are Women, Gender and Language (Brill, 2003), 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 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. She is currently working on Amazigh women’s art. She is also the author of:   

Moroccan Feminist  Discourses http://goo.gl/6j9TcJ

Women’s Movements in Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa  http://goo.gl/Hfkz2R

Women, Language, and Gender in Morocco  https://goo.gl/n2Goc4

Current Book Project:  The Syntax of Berber Women’s Artistic Designs
  Concept of the Series: 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.
 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.

 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.

 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.
  Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Best, Hatoon and Zahia

Hatoon Ajwad AL FASSI (Ph.D)



Associate Professor of Women’s History

Honorary Fellow of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

University of Manchester.

Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS).

Columnist @ AlRiyadh

http://www.alriyadh.com/file/603

P.O. Box 6710, Riyadh 11452

Saudi Arabia

email: hatoon at gmail.com; Email: hatoon.alfassi at manchester.ac.uk

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