{"id":1961,"date":"2007-03-09T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2007-03-09T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:51:31","slug":"an-elderly-stateswoman-forced-to-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"An elder stateswoman forced to flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nawal al-Sadaawi is the elder stateswoman of Egyptian feminism, indeed world feminism &#8211; one of the first writers to expose to the West the horror of female genital mutilation and at the age of 76 still an activist. <\/p>\n<p>Yet it <a href = \"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/832728.html\">appears<\/a> (I&#8217;m aware that this is an Israel source and Dr Sadaawi is not quoted in it) she has been forced to flee Egypt after decades of withstanding fundamentalist pressure.<\/p>\n<p>(And a nastily slanted piece in the Middle East Times &#8211; to which I won&#8217;t link although it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to find &#8211; appears to confirm it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nawal al-Sadaawi is the elder stateswoman of Egyptian feminism, indeed world feminism &#8211; one of the first writers to expose to the West the horror of female genital mutilation and at the age of 76 still an activist. Yet it appears (I&#8217;m aware that this is an Israel source and Dr Sadaawi is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}