Fatima

Fatima says they were initially happy when Ziad joined the army, but that feeling has utterly faded.

“The lies of the government shocked us,” says Fatima, as the tears flow slowly from her eyes and down her cheek.

Assia Djebar is the pen name of Algerian novelist and filmmaker Fatima-Zohra Imalayen.

At St. Fatima Church in Cairo's Heliopolis, graffiti spray-painted on the church's walls called for Morsi's return.

I learned this when I visited the pioneering Muslim feminist scholar Fatima Mernissi in Rabat, Morocco, some years ago.

And then as I was in the act of mounting Fatima it occurred to me he could no doubt direct me.

Fatima was ahead and was picking her way daintily and surely, but slowly.

It was evident that fleet as La Bette might be, Fatima was far fleeter.

I shall take mademoiselle on Fatima and get her safe inside the gates.

Had Fatima been less swift I had not been here to tell the tale.