Word: wafd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EGYPT "Will Clinton direct a military attack against Iraq to distract attention away from his series of scandals?" --Headline, Al-Wafd...
...fact, the Egyptian weekly Al-Wafd claims that several thousand Egyptian girls are circumcised daily at the hands of "hygenic barbers." In all, some 80% of Egyptian women have undergone circumcision, which serves no purpose beyond depriving females of sexual pleasure; Egyptian men believe this condition ensures their fidelity. While Egyptian law does not ban clitoridectomies, a ministerial decree issued in 1959 bans the procedure in facilities affiliated with the Health Ministry and permits only physicians to perform the surgery. Last week Egyptian authorities arrested Nagla's father, the free-lance producer and the two men who performed the procedure...