Fire eyes / Soyara Mire ; interviewed and produced by Karole Selmon.

Program Title:

PRA Archive #:

KZ2047

Description:

Born in Belet Huen, Somalia in 1961, Soyara Mire discusses her decision to quite working as a freelance journalist in 1992 to devote herself to a documentary about female genital mutilation. She discusses the documentary film which resulted from this effort, the true nature of female circumcision, and explores the mythology which protects any discussion of the subject.|FIRE EYES / Soyara Mire| interviewed and produced by Karole Selmon. - Born in Belet Huen, Somalia in 1961, Soyara Mire discusses her decision to quite working as a freelance journalist in 1992 to devote herself to a documentary about female genital matilation. She discusses the documentary film which resulted from this effort, the true nature of female circumcision, and explores the mythology which protects any discussion of the subject. - RECORDED: 1994.

Station:

KPFK

Date Recorded on:

1994.

Date Broadcast on:

-0-

Item duration:

1 reel (44 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.|44:00

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Selmon, Karole.

Mire, Soyara.

Women -- Social conditions.

Fire eyes / Soyara Mire ; interviewed and produced by Karole Selmon.

Distributor:

Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1994.

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