The Cyprus Center for Intercultural Studies, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Caritas Cyprus, and the Cyprus Refugee Council would like to invite you to the screening of screening of the award-winning A Girl from Mogadishu, to mark the recent International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The film relates the experiences of FGM survivor and activist Ifrah Ahmed.

About the film

‘A Girl from Mogadishu’ is based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed.

Fleeing war-torn Somalia in 2006, she is trafficked to Ireland where, as an asylum-seeking refugee, she undergoes a medical examination which reveals the extent of her mutilation as a child. Traumatized by the memory, she turns her experiences into a force for good, emerging as one of the world’s foremost global activists against FGM.