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Mernissi was born in Fez. She studied political science at the Sorbonne and Brandeis University, where she earned her doctorate. Mernissi
Her first book, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Islam, is a historical study of role of the wives of Mahomet.
For Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women (1991), she interviewed peasant women, women labourers, clairvoyants and maidservants.
In 1995, Mernissi published an autobiography, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood.
Other works of Mernissi include
Mernissi is currently a lecturer at the Mohamed V University of Rabat and a research scholar at the University Institute for Scientific Research, in the same city.