Honors
In March 2022, Barid Al Maghrib issued a series of three stamps featuring three prominent Moroccan female figures. To the right is Fatema Mernissi’s stamp!
In February 2022, the Lycèe Descartes in Rabat named one of its halls after Fatema Mernissi.
In 2021, the Africa Institute of Sharjah endowed an annual Fatema Mernissi Fellowship.
In 2020, MESA (Middle East Studies Organization) established an annual Fatema Mernissi BOOK AWARD, which annually honors the best work in studies of gender, sexuality, and women's lived experience..
In 2019, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) created a Fatema Mernissi Chair.
In 2017, the Free University of Brussels established a Fatema Mernissi "chaire culturelle de la sociologie.
In 2016, the University Mohammed V and the Business School HEM jointly established a Fatema Mernissi Chair.
In 2004, the Erasmus Foundation awarded one of its annual prizes to Fatema Mernissi.
In 2003, Fatema Mernissi (along with Susan Sontag) was honored with the Prince Asturias Award.
Honoring Fatema
Condoleances de sa majeste le roi, Mohammed VI, Palais Royal de Rabat
The Guardian Obituary
Fatima Mernissi, right, talks to Prince Felipe of Spain after having been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters in 2003. Photograph (c) Miguel Riopa/AFP
Bruxelles, Lancement de la Chaire culturelle Fatima Mernissi
Fatima Mernissi : L’icône du féminisme marocain. From Libération.
Letter from Layla Chaouni, Mernissi’s longtime Moroccan Publisher
Fatema Mernissi: The Pride of Islamic Feminism in Modern Times - Muslim Institute Obituary
Rabat - One of Morocco’s most celebrated feminist writers and sociologists passed away aged 75, on Monday. From Morocco World News.
The New York Times Obituary
Fatema Mernissi, center, in 1996 with, from left, Mahnaz Afkhami, Yasmeen Murshed and Deniz Kandiyoti. Photo (c) Amy Toensing.
The Arab Weekly Obituary: Fatema Mernissi leaves a legacy of feminism
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