Waris Dirie

Cathleen Miller

The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

Desert Flower

Wüstenblume

Dramatic, humorous, and uplifting, this international bestseller offers a self-portrait of a courageous woman whose spirit is as breathtaking as her beauty. "From the deserts of Somalia to the world of high fashion, (Dirie) battles oppression and emerges a real champion."--Elton John. of photos.

The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad

Jeanne D'Haem

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at twelve on foot through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage; being discovered by Terence Donovan as she worked as a cleaner in London; and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, Desert Flower. Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. The world of famine and violence, where women have no voice and no place - the very world that nearly destroyed her also gave her the tools to survive. She traces the roots of her courage, resilience and humour back to her motherland, and most particularly to her mother. Desert Dawn is the story of that return and a testimony to the stubborn fact that you can love something dearly and yet not love all that it represents. Desert Dawn is about coming home.

Desert Dawn

Tracy Chevalier

Mijn woestijn. - Autobiografie van het vermaarde fotomodel, dat zich als speciaal ambassadeur van de Verenigde Naties inzet voor de bestrijding van genitale verminking van vrouwen.

İnci küpeli kız

Bernhard Jendricke

Als die dreizehnjährige Waris Dirie für fünf Kamele an einen 60jährigen verheiratet werden soll, flieht sie aus ihrem Heimatdorf zu ihrer Grossmutter nach Mogadischu. Dort nutzt sie die Chance, als Dienstmädchen mit ihrem Onkel nach London zu gehen. Zufällig wird ein Modefotograf auf sie aufmerksam, und für sie beginnt ein neues Leben auf den Laufstegen der teuersten Designer der Welt.

Corinna Milborn

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Terence Donovan and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, Desert Flower. In Desert Dawn she wrote about becoming a UN Special Ambassador against FGM (female genital mutilation) and returning to her family in Somalia. Desert Children tells us how she and the journalist Corinna Milborn have investigated the practice of FGM in Europe - they estimate that up to 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. At the moment, France is the only European country in which offenders are convicted and no European country officially recognises the threat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum. Here are the voices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by Waris Dirie's courage. They speak out for the first time and move us to action.

Desert Children

En blomma i Afrikas öken

* Inspirational, dramatic and extraordinary - the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American model and is now at the young age of 30, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision

Desert Flower and Desert Dawn Omnibus

storia di una donna

Fiore del deserto

Пустинно цвете

Waris Dirie vuelve a su Somalia natal donde evoca su infancia junto a los suyos, antes de su huída a Europa.

Flor del desierto

En somalisk kvindes beretning om sin opvækst, omskæring og flugt hjemmefra som trettenårig, da hun ikke ville giftes væk til en tresårig mand og om hendes fortsatte liv i England og USA, hvor hun bliver anerkendt fotomodel og talskvinde i FN for afrikanske kvinders rettigheder

Gul-i ṣaḥrā

Genitalverstümmelung wird nicht nur in Afrika praktiziert, sondern auch hier vor unserer Haustür. Mindstens 500 000 Mädchen und Frauen in Europa sind davon betroffen, täglich kommen neue Opfer hinzu. Die Bestsellerautorin und UN-Sonderbotschafterin Waris Dirie, die im Alter von fünf Jahren die Qualen der Beschneidung erlebte, war die erste Frau, die öffentlich über diese schlimme Folter sprach. In diesem Buch erzählt sie ihr Leben weiter, von dem Tag an, als sie ihr Schweigen brach. Sie berichtet von Begegnungen mit Opfern und Tätern, von den mühsamen Recherchen, von Rückschlägen und Erfolgen.

Schmerzenskinder

Λουλουδι της ερημου

Cvetok pustyni

Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of the slums of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, was chosen to play the young Waris. The book and the film record many extraordinary things - from facing down a tiger, to being discovered by a famous photographer in London - but it also tells the grim story of female circumcision, an ordeal that the young Waris had to endure. Saving Safa opens with a letter from Safa, now aged seven, who explains that she is worried that she will undergo FGM in spite of the contract her parents have signed with Dirie's Desert Flower Foundation stating that they will never have their daughter cut. Waris drops everything and flies to Djibouti where she meets Safa's father and mother who thinks her daughter should be cut to stop the community ostracising them. As Safa was saved from FGM through a contract with her parents, the Foundation believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughters

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