{"id":771,"date":"2023-04-06T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=our_fellows&#038;p=771"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:00:58","slug":"shadia-elshiwy","status":"publish","type":"our_fellows","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/shadia-elshiwy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadia Elshiwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadia is a physician and public health expert focusing on sexual and reproductive health and preventing gender-based violence in the Middle East and North Africa. She was drawn to this work after witnessing the female genital mutilation of a young girl in rural Egypt. \u201cThe look in her eyes fueled me with anger and insistence to know that I needed to change it \u2013 no girl should be forced to be mutilated like this girl was. I felt that I had to make a change, I could not stay silent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through her leadership role as assistant regional director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in the Arab World, she works to create a conducive environment and change the social norms to make sexual and reproductive health not just a priority, but a right, for women across the Arab Region. \u201cI have always envisioned living in a world where -as a woman- I can enjoy high quality of life where what I do with my body happens by choice and not chance, and I want to play a role in changing the reality of women in the Arab region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","focus_area":[93,96],"expertise":[142,105],"class_list":["post-771","our_fellows","type-our_fellows","status-publish","hentry","focus_area-gender","focus_area-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights","expertise-gender-based-violence","expertise-gender-equity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our_fellows"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus_area?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertise?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}