Fatima Al-Rasheed

About

With encyclopedic knowledge mapped across her mind like an intricate library catalog, Fatima hunts historical mysteries through fragile manuscripts most scholars would never dare touch. Her nimble fingers and razor-sharp intuition transform dusty archives into living narratives, revealing secrets that powerful institutions would prefer remain buried.

Backstory

Three languages danced through Fatima Al-Rasheed's mind as she deciphered the merchant's ledger that would later expose a centuries-old forgery ring operating through Baghdad's book markets. Her grandmother's stories of djinn hiding in marginalia had seemed like folklore until Fatima discovered actual coded messages embedded in illuminated manuscripts, written by a secret network of scholar-smugglers who protected banned texts during the Mongol invasions. The revelation came during her internship at the Institute for Medieval Studies, where her ability to read between the lines—literally—caught the attention of Dr. Amara Okafor, a renowned manuscript detective. Now Fatima works as a forensic bibliographer, using her synesthetic ability to "hear" the age of ink and "taste" forged parchment, turning her childhood sensitivity to books into a weapon against those who would erase history.

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