Famous People with Name Fatema

Fatema Hameed Gerashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Fatema Hameed Gerashi: is a Bahraini swimmer.She represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, competing in the women's 50 metres freestyle race. At the age of 12, she was the youngest competitor of any event and any nationality at the Sydney Games.[1] [2] She completed the race with a time of 51.15[3], finishing more than twelve seconds ahead of Equatorial Guinea's Paula Barila Bolopa, but was disqualified, reportedly for having wobbled on the starting blocks, which was deemed a false start despite her not having been the first competitor to enter the water.

Fatema Or Fatima Mernissi            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Fatema Or Fatima Mernissi: is a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.She received her primary education in a school established by the nationalist movement, and secondary level education in an all-girls school funded by the French protectorate. In 1957, she studied political science at the Sorbonne and at Brandeis University, where she earned her doctorate.