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}}</ref> As an adult, she has written about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs."<ref>{{REFbook | }}</ref> As an adult, she has written about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs."<ref>{{REFbook | ||
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| − | }}</ref> '''As a doctor and human rights activist, Saadawi is also opposed to male [[circumcision]]. She believes that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation.'''<ref>{{REFweb | + | }}</ref> '''As a doctor and [[human rights]] activist, Saadawi is also opposed to male [[circumcision]]. She believes that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation.'''<ref>{{REFweb |
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Latest revision as of 12:39, 21 July 2022
Nawal El Saadawi (27 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist.
Advocacy against genital mutilation
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At a young age, Saadawi underwent the process of female genital mutilation.[1] As an adult, she has written about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs."[2] As a doctor and human rights activist, Saadawi is also opposed to male circumcision. She believes that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation.[3]
See also
Wikipedia article: Nawal El Saadawi. Retrieved 22 March 2021.- Female circumcision
External links
Cowell, Alan (21 March 2021)."Nawal El Saadawi, Advocate for Women in the Arab World, Dies at 89", The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2021.- Skopeleti, Clea (21 March 2021)."Nawal El Saadawi, trailblazing Egyptian writer, dies aged 89", The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- Mitchell, Aliston (16 May 2010)."Nawal al Saadawi", The Global Dispatches. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
References
- ↑ El-Wardani, Mahmoud (5 August 2017).
At 85, Nawal El-Saadawi writes about Nawal El-Saadawi
, Ahram Online. Retrieved 22 March 2021. - ↑
El Saadawi N: Part 1: The Mutilated Half
, in: The Hidden Face of Eve. - ↑ Michael, Maggie (2 July 2007).
Egypt Officials Ban Female Circumcision
(archive URL). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
