Fatiha Mejjati

Fatiha Mohamed Taher Mejjati (; born ) is a Moroccan jihadist. She is the widow of Karim Mejjati, a co-founder of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group and a member of Al-Qaeda. Karim Mejjati is suspected of involvement in planning the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

Mejjati is believed to be living in Syria. In 2023, she was designated a terrorist by the Moroccan Ministry of Justice, and an arrest warrant was issued against her in connection with alleged terrorist activities.

Biography Fatiha Mohamed Taher Hassani was born in 1961 in Derb Sultan, Casablanca, to a father who worked as a carpenter and a mother who was a housewife. She grew up in a middle-class family with five sisters and a brother.

Hassani received a Baccalauréat in Literature and Human Sciences in 1980 and earned a degree in French private law from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 1985.

In 1990, she joined the Moroccan Institute of Management as a management assistant. According to her own later accounts, Hassani's religious radicalization began in 1991, influenced by the Gulf War. She stated that during this period, she "found happiness only in the mosque" and began wearing the hijab permanently. She was not permitted to wear a hijab at her workplace, which led to tensions with her employer. Hassani later gave Mejjati, who reportedly had limited knowledge of Arabic at the time, a French translation of the Quran. Hassani later stated that her time in Afghanistan under Taliban rule was "the most wonderful period" of her life. The family subsequently relocated to Pakistan. She and her son were held in Saudi Arabia until June 20 2003, On July 5, she arrived in Raqqa, then the de facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). She later posted a photograph of herself posing in front of a court building in Jarabalus, a town on the Syrian-Turkish border that was under ISIL control at the time. She also became a member of ISIL's media committee and was described by sources as one of the most influential women within the organization. Hassani herself was subsequently detained at the Al-Hawl refugee camp. In 2020, she reportedly escaped from the camp and was believed to be sheltering in Idlib, along with more than a dozen other women who had also escaped from Al-Hawl.