This is related to my previous post on FGM.
Nawal Nour, MD, a Sudanese-American, is the director of the African Women’s Health Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The only clinic of its kind in the United States, it addresses the medical and emotional needs of female immigrants who have undergone genital circumcision in their homelands. In 2003, Nour was named a MacArthur Fellow for advancing initiatives in international women’s health.
As part of the Lowell Humanities Series, Nour discusses founding the clinic in 1999 and her experiences with patients she has treated. She also provides background on the historical and cultural context of the practice of female genital circumcision.
I tell you people, it’s women like her who make me proud to be a Sudanese. Go Nawal! Do your thing and keep representing! By the way doesn’t she look a bit like Angelina Jolie in this picture? Inter racial marriages sure do produce some amazing results.
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loool, yup, she does!!!
She must be one hell of a woman doing all that work. I admire people like her, especially when they are “women” too!
Boy and she is does . . .
She’s a class act. Thanks for that heads up.
It would be nice to give shamarat some credit for the information you get from the website, I see some of your articles are inspired from there yet you fail to even honor them with a link… I hope this is not deliberate…
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