A beautiful desert girl living in the Al-Fayoum Oasis, where life is shaped only by the present moment and the laws of the desert, who enters Santiago's life with a sudden and spiritual collision. From the moment they meet by the well, they both understand each other through the Language of the World. They fall in love while stuck in the oasis due to the war. Fatima is not one of the other seductive or conformist obstacles (like the Merchant) that appear before Santiago; on the contrary, she is the true divine force that sends him toward his Personal Legend. Opposing the principle that love locks the beloved into inaction or imprisonment, she virtuously practices the tradition of desert women sending their husbands and loved ones away and waiting for them.
She is the collective heritage of the women of the universal desert. She has spent her entire life in the valley; since her childhood, her father has gone on expeditions into the desert and has always returned. This cycle gave her the assurance that 'whoever goes will always return in some way.'
Black-eyed, black-haired, her beauty is breathtaking. A graceful young woman without a veil in the desert climate, bearing the traces of dark-skinned Moorish lineage that recalls the Spanish conquistadors.
Santiago
Not merely a romantic interest, but like a sacred relic through which she reads the universal language in human form. Fatima proves to him that love is not a power that restricts a person.