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Fatima

1

[ fat-uh-muh, fah-tee-mah ]

noun

  1. a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.
  2. the seventh and last wife of Bluebeard, popularly a symbol for feminine curiosity.
  3. a female given name.


Fátima

2

[ fah-ti-muh ]

noun

  1. a village in central Portugal, N of Lisbon: Roman Catholic shrine.

Fátima

1

/ ˈfatimə /

noun

  1. a village in central Portugal: Roman Catholic shrine and pilgrimage centre


Fatima

2

/ ˈfætɪmə /

noun

  1. Fatima?606632FArabMISC: daughter of Mohammed ?606–632 ad daughter of Mohammed; wife of Ali

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Like the creperie Cafe Bonaparte before it, the space is owned by Omar Popal, his sister Fatima, and their parents, father Zubair and mother Shamim.

Fatima thinks her questions are subtle, but you always know right away when she’s sniffing around for something specific.

Though you know Fatima thinks of you primarily as a case study, it’s no small thing to spend months sharing your life with someone, especially someone who listens as carefully as she does.

After hearing about a consultant’s 2017 report describing dirty and damaged operating room instruments, the union at Fatima requested documents about this and other problems revealed by various inspections.

Eager to save jobs, Fatima’s powerful United Nurses & Allied Professionals union endorsed Prospect’s bid.

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.

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