Fatima Sadiqi:
a leading voice for Moroccan women
Fatima Sadiqi is president of the Centre for Studies and Research
on Women, director of the graduate unit "Gender Studies," and
Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies in the Department of English at
Dr. Sadiqi
has been awarded four Fulbright postdoctoral grants to conduct research at
COMPREHENSION
1. The following text involves additional information about Dr. Fatima Sadiqi. Read it and underline the new ideas which did not
appear in the text above.
Fatima Sadiqi was born in a rural Berber village in the region of
2. Read the two
texts above and complete the following table with the necessary information.
Name |
Fatima Sadiqi |
Origin |
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Works |
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Memberships |
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Job (s) |
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Achievements (Conferences, Nominations,
Awards...) |
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3. Decide if these statements are true or
false; then, justify your answer.
a. Fatima Sadiqi is originally from
Truer Falser
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b. Fatima Sadiqi went to
Truer Falser
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c. Fatima Sadiqi organized
two national conferences.
Truer Falser
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4. Complete the following sentences by
quoting the appropriate word(s)
a). Dr. Sadiqi has been
awarded………………..……….……………………………..
b). Dr. Sadiqi’s
writings are about ………..…...…..…………………………………..
5. Put the words between brackets
before the appropriate definition/ meaning.
(Violence,
conference, promote, coordinator, numerous)
1……………………………….: To encourage the popularity, sale, development or existence of something
2……………………………….: An event, sometimes lasting a few days, at which there is a group of talks
on a particular subject, or a meeting in which especially business matters are
discussed formally.
3……………………………….:
Actions or words which are intended to hurt people.
4……………………………….:
Many.
5……………………………….: Someone whose job is to make different groups work together in an organized
way to achieve something
- Fatima Sadiqi is interested in the fields below. Match the
fields of study with their meanings/ definitions.
Field |
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meanings/
definitions |
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The scientific study
of language or of languages. |
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(branch of
linguistics) The way that
words and phrases are put together to form sentences in a language. |