Who Does She Think She Is….In DC?
On Saturday evening I moderated a panel discussion about female genital mutilation/cutting, commonly known as FGM/C. It was part of the Capital Irish Film Festival organized by Solas Nua an Irish Arts organization. The film we discussed was ‘A Girl from Mogadishu’ created by Irish film director Mary McGuckian, about the FGM/C campaigner Ifrah Ahmed. It tells the story of Ifrah’s traumatic experience of FGM/C when she was a child in Somalia, and how at age 15 she was forced to
