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Created on 30 November -0001
2. Reflections on the Sahiyo Activist Retreat: A Transformative Experience
(News & Blog)
... began in Egypt, where I worked alongside pioneering activists like Nawal El Saadawi, who fearlessly challenged the cultural and systemic roots of FGC. Being part of that movement shaped my understanding ...
Created on 12 December 2024
3. FGM/C Sexual Education & Prevention: An Interview with Dr. Reham Awwad
(News & Blog)
By Kiah Leone In celebration of World Sexual Health Day, I sat down with Dr. Awwad, the co-founder of Egypt’s first-ever multidisciplinary female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) clinic, Restore, to ...
Created on 13 November 2023
4. Psychosexual Care for FGM/C Survivors: An Interview with Dr. Reham Awwad
(News & Blog)
...  When Restore opened in June 2020, it became Egypt’s first-ever multidisciplinary female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) clinic. Co-founded by aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Reham Awwad and ...
Created on 04 September 2023
5. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Dr. Akil Taherbhai
(News & Blog)
... to ending this practice of FGM/C. I want this cause to be helped, whether it is Nigeria or Egypt or the U.S., or wherever. That is my first aim. And then, if I am needed for other things, such as the Bhaiyo ...
Created on 02 March 2023
6. Reflecting on an Israeli Minister’s decision to not grant asylum for a woman fleeing female genital mutilation/cutting
(News & Blog)
By Rachel Wine On November 17th, outgoing Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked forwent the unanimous recommendation from a committee on refugee policy and rejected the asylum request of a young Sierra ...
Created on 11 January 2023
7. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Development intern Avery Boudreau
(News & Blog)
... genital cutting (FGC) for the first time? In school I know I must have heard about FGC briefly, but I didn’t think much of it. It wasn’t until last year, when I studied abroad for a semester in Egypt, ...
Created on 13 June 2022
8. Understanding female genital mutilation/cutting: An ally’s call for action
(News & Blog)
... traced back to Egypt. I learned about the four types and how there is no scientific evidence to help women medically in any way.  Being a student of law, I have the opportunity to speak up and back my ...
Created on 08 September 2021
9. Voices reflection: Speaking freely about my experience
(News & Blog)
... in the region in Egypt. I was cut at the age of 10. I have always been very concerned about women’s rights and gender equality. This passion and concern were what inspired me to produce documentary work ...
Created on 25 August 2021
10. Voices reflection: Speaking freely about my experience
(News & Blog)
... in the region in Egypt. I was cut at the age of 10. I have always been very concerned about women’s rights and gender equality. This passion and concern were what inspired me to produce documentary work ...
Created on 25 August 2021
11. Remembering Egyptian feminist’s heroic fight against female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
By Madrisha Debnath Despite the fact that the mother of Egyptian Feminist Movement Nawal El Saadawi died at age 89 earlier this year, her fight against patriarchy lives on. Born in 1931, she was an Egyptian ...
Created on 08 August 2021
12. Four women who were pivotal to the movement to end female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... have worked for the rights of women and girls. FGC is present in 92 countries. In honor of Women’s History Month, Sahiyo is honoring four women from Egypt, India, Senegal, and Austria who changed the world ...
Created on 25 March 2021
13. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
... The Dawoodi Bohra population comprises up to one million people in countries such as India, Pakistan, Yemen, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania and South Africa. Diaspora communities also live in Europe, Australia ...
Created on 15 January 2021
14. How female genital cutting is portrayed in television series
(News & Blog)
... brought in Shani, an asylum seeker from Egypt. While in the detention center, she becomes intimate with an inmate, Niky. When their sex life begins to struggle, Shani opens up to Niky about the FGC she ...
Created on 13 October 2020
15. Population Council hosts webinar to discuss ending female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... Population Council, Egypt; Dennis Matanda, Population Council, Kenya; P. Stanley Yoder, medical anthropologist; and Nafissatou J. Diop, UNFPA. Dr. Matanda spoke on the use of data to inform programming. ...
Created on 25 August 2020
16. Population Council hosts second webinar on FGM/C research
(News & Blog)
... of Washington Seattle (Moderator); Nada Wahba, Population Council, Egypt; Dennis Matanda, Population Council, Kenya; P. Stanley Yoder, Medical Anthropologist; and Nafissatou J. Diop, UNFPA. Dr. Matanda ...
Created on 02 July 2020
17. On the path to healing: My journey after experiencing female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... specific to me. At a young age, I underwent Type II female genital cutting, known specifically as “taharah” (purification) within the Egyptian community, in which only part of the clitoral hood was removed ...
Created on 31 December 2019
18. U.S. Sahiyo Board Member Spotlight: A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD
(News & Blog)
... with leaders involved in the FGM/C issue, including Marie Assaad, Egypt’s gentle warrior, who was then Deputy Secretary General of the World Council of Churches. The timing was not right politically for ...
Created on 17 November 2019
19. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Joanne Golden
(News & Blog)
... and I was invited to my friend’s wedding in Egypt, where I spent six weeks as a guest of her family and friends. I could not have been happier!  My career trajectory did not go as planned as I moved towards ...
Created on 10 August 2019
20. The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation
(News & Blog)
... with the practice. Consequently, in recent years, the medicalisation of FGM has taken place globally, particularly in Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria, Northern Sudan, and Yemen. In many ...
Created on 05 March 2019