Female genital mutilation is on the decline in Egypt thanks to talk shows bringing the issue into the national conversation.
Author: Hanne Blank
Hanne Blank is a writer, a historian, a cook, and a domestic worker. She is the author of various books including Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury, 2007), Unruly Appetites (Seal Press, 2003), and the forthcoming Straight (Beacon Press) and Homework: Sex, Politics, and the Soul of Keeping House. A Midwesterner by birth and inclination, she currently lives, works, and teaches in a nineteenth-century stone millworkers' cottage on a dirt road in Baltimore.
Jacques Rifflet: “A Girl Is a Small Catastrophe”
To say that Rifflet richly deserves the condemnation he’s been earning in the Belgian press and the Muslimah blogosphere is an understatement. On the official side of things, the backpedaling has been reasonably strenuous. Rifflet has offered feeble excuses, while the Belgian Minster of Defense has officially disowned him in front of Parliament.