![]() Then seven, Nour told her: "Grandmother carried out lots of circumcisions in our house. "I decided I had to fly to Djibouti immediately to save my little girl from this brutal crime." Once in Djibouti, she realised that the family were being ostracised and Nour's fear of being forced to undergo FGM, rather than diminishing, had grown. ![]() ![]() "I was shocked and I was very angry," Dirie, 48, said. Dirie's new book begins in 2011, four years after the contract with Nour's parents had been signed, when she received a letter from the girl that suggested her parents were having second thoughts. The girl who was chosen to play the young Dirie as she undergoes FGM is Safa Idriss Nour and was picked on condition that her parents sign a contract agreeing never to perform the same ritualistic operation on her. ![]()
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