Who is Fatiha Mejjati, the “Black Widow of Al-Qaeda” who inspired the film “Rabia”?

In “Rabia”, the French, Belgian and German drama film by director Mareike Engelhardt on female radicalization released at the end of November, Belgian actress Lubna Azabal plays Madame, the Moroccan Fatiha Mejjati alias Oum Adam. Who is this woman nicknamed “Black Widow of Al-Qaeda” who led several Islamic State women’s houses in Raqqa, Syria.

Fatiha Mejjati was a leading figure in Daesh. But nothing predestined her for this. “After a privileged youth in Casablanca and studying law, she became radicalized, taking with her her husband, Abdelkrim Mejjati. With their two children, they joined Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the early 2000s. Huffington Post. Fatiha’s husband would be the coordinator of the attacks in Casablanca in 2003, those in Madrid in 2004 then in London in 2005. But this Al-Qaeda leader will not have a long life expectancy. He was shot dead in April 2005, along with his 11-year-old son, during clashes with security services in the town of Ar Rass, Saudi Arabia.