Around the globe today and estimated 130 million women have undergone genital mutilation, also known as FGM (female genital mutilation). FMG is still very prominent in present day egypt and its not going away anytime soon. New world health says in their article The Quiet Mutilation “the practice can range from cutting off part or all of the clitoris to the total removal of the vaginal lips, and then sewing together whatever tissue remains. Some girls are cut when they are just a few weeks old, while others undergo the process when they reach puberty.” In Egypt today seventy five percent of the girls have undergone the processes of FGM. In egypt it is tradition to get young girls circumcised during the summer when the dates on the palm trees start to turn red .
Workshops are being held all over egypt to educate the community about the medical and psychological dangers of FGM, but this doesn't always top people from following tradition. Awatef Mohammed Ali who attends these workshops says “my daughter Shahd who is 10 will be circumcised by next summer”. Her family will first consult with a doctor to see if she will be at risk and if she is then they will not go through will the procedure. Ali who was circumcised herself claims “she doesn't want to stop the tradition of FGM”, and Ali's husband is determined to get his daughter cut. FGM is very prominent in egypt and unfortunately it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.
WESTCOTT, LUCY. "The Quiet Mutilation." Newsweek Global 164.12 (2015): 50-53. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 Oct. 2016.
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