You're listening to the inquiry with me, Helena Merriman.

On the 29th of May this year, a 17 year old girl, Maya, was taken by her mother to a private clinic in Egypt.

She was there for an operation.

She was taken into a room where a female doctor gave her an anesthetic.

There, the doctor cut away parts of her sexual organs.

Maya never left that hospital.

She died of complications following female genital mutilation or FGM, a procedure that involves partial or

total removal of the external female genitalia.

When the news of Myar's death broke, in some parts of Egypt there was despair.

Everyone that I know is very frustrated.

It still happens and there is nothing, nothing that we can do to prevent it. But for many more Egyptians,

this death will do nothing to shake their belief that female genital mutilation is right.

According to the latest government report, 92% of married Egyptian women between 15 and 49 have had their genitals cut. It's an astonishing statistic. Even more so when you consider

that FGM is against the law in Egypt. Summer is the cutting season, so over the next few months

hundreds of thousands of Egyptian girls will be sent to the doctor to be

subjected to FGM. So our question this week, why can't Egypt stop FGM?

Part 1, from ancient to modern.

I wrote a whole book on toilet paper in prison, and then I smuggled the toilet paper outside the prison when I came out.

Meet 83 year old Dr. Noel El Sadawi, a woman viewed by successive governments as one of the most

dangerous in Egypt, so dangerous that she was imprisoned for three months and lost her government

job as director of public health.

Why?

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