Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

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It was in McDonalds that her striking beauty was "discovered", leading to a career in modelling and another as an ardent campaigner against female genital mutilation (circumcision). Her story thus begins in the desert and moves from there to Mogadishu, to London, to Paris, to New York. This is extremely humbling, especially as she still appreciates the things that western society hates- rain, and a comparitively endless supply of food. To be honest, I'm sometimes frustrated by the feminist associations because to me they seem to worry about such insignificant things. For Waris Dirie, promised in marriage to an old man she couldn't bear to regard as a future husband, she made the decision to run away, into the desert where she and her family belonged to a tribe of nomads who went from place to place, always seeking water for their flocks and simple food to keep people and animals alive.

Tačiau planuojamos priverstinės vestuvės buvo paskutinis lašas, paskatinęs ją, be jokio tikslaus plano, pabėgti iš gimtųjų kraštų. Waris Dirie has received many prestigious prizes and awards for her work and books, such as the “Women’s World Award” by President Mikhail Gorbachev (2004), the “Bischof Oscar Romero Preis” by the Catholic Church (2005), the “Woman of the Year Award” by the magazine “Glamour”(2000), the “Afrika Preis” by the german Federal Government and the “Corinne Award” by the holding organization of the German Book Trade for the best factual book.the writing style is horribly amateurish and immature, as if her experiences were copied down as she rambled on. The dramatic scene, in which the little girl violently gets circumcised, brings people to tears worldwide. Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad is an autobiographical book written by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published in 1998 about the life of Somali model, Waris Dirie.

She runs away to Mogadishu and eventually gets a job as a maid for an uncle who is the Somalian ambassador to England. Manau, kad šia knyga ji neša labai svarbią žinią, padeda suvokti kokie kraupūs dalykai dedasi ir mūsų dienomis. A book not only to touch the heart, but one that should make us all want to take a stand to stop this cruel practise.The tale of a courageous woman's struggles to come to terms with her Somali childhood, including her experience of female genital mutilation (FGM). You think of the millions of girls and women trapped in the situation Dirie survived (death from FMG is not uncommon - Dirie may have lost a sister from it, but no one speaks of it). A young woman tries to escape all this and after many adventures he succeeds and achieves international recognition in the modelling world, thus gaining independence and respect. She sets her own course and she follows it and nothing dissuades her from the pursuit of the life she dreams of.

She's not someone I would ever want to meet or hang out with, although I do respect what she's been through and genuinely admire her triumph over adversity and her activism. She travels on behalf of the United Nations around the world, participates in conferences, meets presidents, Nobel Prize winners and movie stars and gives hundreds of interviews to draw attention to her mission.

The fact that it is growing, not declining is awful, and that the practise is spreading due to those faiths and nationalitys that carry this practise out are emigrating to other lands, is a revolting thought. As a special ambassador to the United Nations, Somalian supermodel Dirie speaks out against the custom of genital mutilation, a "barbaric rite" that she underwent at age five. In 2007 the French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented her with the “Chévalier de la Légion d’Honneur”.