Guest of the ilb 2007
Fatema Mernissi was born in
Fez, Morocco in 1940. After graduating in political science and
sociology in Rabat and Paris she received a doctorate in the US. In
1975 she rejected misogynist interpretations of the Koran with »Beyond
the Veil« and in numerous publications has pleaded for an understanding
between the Western and Islamic worlds based on democracy. Mernissi
teaches at the University of Rabat.
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