No compromise /
Thirty years ago, as the first Arab woman to speak out against female circumcision, Egyptian feminist Nawal El Sadaawi lost her job as Director of Public Health. In 1981, she was imprisoned for criticising Sadat's regime. Her name appeared on a fundamentalist death list and both she and her hus...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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London :
British Broadcasting Corporation,
2001.
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| Series: | Correspondent
Current affairs in video |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Thirty years ago, as the first Arab woman to speak out against female circumcision, Egyptian feminist Nawal El Sadaawi lost her job as Director of Public Health. In 1981, she was imprisoned for criticising Sadat's regime. Her name appeared on a fundamentalist death list and both she and her husband were forced into exile. Now, having voiced the common knowledge that the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, has pagan roots, she has been accused of insulting Islam. For this, she could be forcibly divorced from her husband and face a three-year prison term. We talk to 70-year-old Nawal about her life's struggle for the freedom to criticise Islam from within. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed May 9, 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (49 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:48:37 |