Asma Lambaret

Asma Lamrabet is a Moroccan doctor, Islamic feminist, scholar and author. Trained in medicine, she worked as a volunteer doctor in Spain and Latin America. She mainly worked in Chile and Mexico for eight years starting in 1995. She came into contact there with Liberation Theology, which caused her to examine her own religion. From 2004 until 2007, she returned to Morocco, where she gathered a group of Muslim women interested in researching and reflecting upon Islam and intercultural dialog. In 2008, she became president and a board member of International Group of Studies and Reflection on Women and Islam (GIERFI), based in Barcelona. GIERFI has members and experts from at least eight countries including the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Morocco. Their mission is to help create a new female Muslim consciousness. In 2011 she became Director of Studies and Research Center on Women's Issues in Islam in Morocco. She is a member of the International Academic Committee of the Musawah Network, a member of the Fatéma Mernissi Chair at Mohammed V University in Rabat and a member of the Moroccan National Committee on Education and Culture. Her website is: https://asma-lamrabet.com/.