Word: nawal
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...well, glorious. Their triumphs offer a rare chance to forget that trite line, trotted out each Olympiad, about how it's a victory just to be here. For once, they're the best. "In the past, you hardly saw any small nations on the medals table," says i.o.c. member Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco, whose 1984 gold in the women's 400-m hurdles in 1984 was her country's first. "It's globalization in the best sense...
...Nawal Nour, an instructor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), won a MacArthur “genius” grant of $500,000 for her work concerning circumcised women. She is founder and director of the African Women’s Health Practice at Brigham Women’s Hospital, the only clinic oriented toward medical treatment and emotional support to African women who have undergone female circumcision in the United States...
...Nawal Nour, an instructor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was delivering a baby when she learned that she had won one of this year’s prizes, according to a University press release...