Saddeka Arebi

Saddeka Arebi

Dr. Saddeka Mohammed Arabi (Arabic: صديقة محمد عربي‎, Ṣaddīqah Muḥammad `Arabī) (died July 2007) was a Libyan-American/Arab American social anthropologist and author. Born in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, she immigrated with her family to the United States during the late 1970s, eventually settling in Northern California. After obtaining her doctorate, she subsequently served as a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and Saint Mary's College of California. She was also an active member of the Muslim World League (Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami), one of the largest Islamic non-governmental organizations in the world consisting of Muslim religious figures from twenty-two countries. She died in July 2007 while visiting relatives in Libya.