Fatima Mernissi was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1940. She is known internationally as an Islamic feminist.
"[...] Like a modern day Scheherazade, it is perhaps Fatima Mernissi's destiny to turn our world into a fairytale, many fairytales, told with varied twists and turns, over and over and over again. She is the modern day Scheherazade of the Arab world, and Scheherazade reigns as the mythical queen of Arabic literature, not because of her physical beauty (which is taken for granted), but because she combined creativity with the shrewdest intelligence.
[...] Although known for her scholarly analysis and essays, Mernissi would describe the best-seller among her collected books as a work of fiction. Publishers promote Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, as a memoir, but the book, now in 24 languages, is a necklace of fairytale vignettes strung out like semi-precious gemstones that bring the reader - through the provocative sensibility of a girl-child - into the private and very domestic harem of an old Moroccan family post-World War II.
[...] Although most of her texts are non-fiction essays, Mernissi often uses the techniques of a fiction writer. [...]" -- Excerpt from an article for the Cairo Times, May 2003, by Maggie Huff-Rousselle
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DOB: 1940
Country: Morocco
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Dreams of Trespass
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