Nadia Wassef

Formerly at the New Women Research Center

Bio

Nadia Wassef formerly worked at the New Women Research Center and Women and Memory Forum, and is a coalition member of the Female Genital Mutilation Task Force, Cairo, Egypt.

Featured Work

AUG 6, 2000 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 3 (Summer 2000): Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Ending Female Genital Mutilation without Human Rights: Two Approaches-Egypt

FGM can be dismantled by persistent questioning. An appeal informed by an understanding of human rights, but which draws upon local cultural and religious notions ...