Fatima Sadiqi is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Al Akhawayn University and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco. A pioneering scholar of language, gender, and women’s studies in North Africa, she is the author of several books and numerous articles on language, gender, Amazigh women, and Islamic feminisms. She is a former President of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) and chaired the first AMEWS international conference in Beirut in 2021. She is the editor of Entangled Authorities and Contested Bodies: Gender, Religion, and Resistance in the MENA and Mediterranean Worlds, a special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 23, no. 1 (2027), which brings together articles presented at the 2021 AMEWS international conference. Her research explores gendered authority, women’s knowledge, religion, and resistance in North Africa and the wider MENA region.