Egypt and Young Daughter

: I hear their voices talking in Arabic, I don't need to understand their conversation but I am wrought with concern, according to Huffington Post Canada. I don't usually pay attention to who in a toilet stall next to me in Canada, but in Egypt, a thought gnaws at me as I sit there with my legs draped over the seat. There is a woman and likely her young daughter huddled in a stall on the left of me; I can see the bottom of a black niqab pooling around black shoes and small purple running shoes being directed, scurrying around, and doing what they're told. Are they victims of female genital mutilation Egypt has more women affected by FGM than any country in the world -- tens of millions of women are walking around in that country with cut and sewn vaginas. My younger self personifies Egypt as a strong, beautiful, and sexualized Cleopatra. And their offenders usually target them before the green age of puberty, somewhere between seven to 12 years old but anywhere from birth onward. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.