Abstract
Throughout the past decades, there has been little progress in the Arab world for promoting the end of the long-held practice of MGM. It is taken for granted that males should be circumcised, under several pretexts, where the strongest one is the absence of true information. With the emergence of a new means of communication, promoting anti-MGM thought has become easier. As a group of online activists, we created a Facebook group in Arabic, to be the strongest movement in the region so far promoting the end of MGM.
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I want to thank Marilyn Milos and NOCIRC for the invitation to speak, Seham Abd El Salam for her support and for offering for me to go to the symposium in her place, Nihal Nour for her help in editing, Aya Sami and Saied Abd El Moaty for their brilliant ideas, and Amy Rosenberg for her endless unconditional heart and support.
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Saied, H.K. (2013). Self-Made Intactivism in the Middle East. In: Denniston, G., Hodges, F., Milos, M. (eds) Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1_21
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