Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Fatema Mernissi

Born: 1940
Died: November 30, 2015 (aged 75)
Bio: Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
Known for:
- Beyond the Veil (1975)
- The Veil and the Male Elite (1991)
- The forgotten queens of Islam (1993)
- Islam and Democracy (1992)