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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad is a memoir published in by the Somali model, author, and activist Waris Dirie. The book recounts Dirie’s harrowing life story, from her roots as a member of a nomadic family and the unspeakable abuses she suffered as a child, to her extraordinary rise to international fame, first as a fashion model, then as an ambassador and advocate .  · An internationally recognized supermodel, Waris Dirie is a United Nations special ambassador who travels the world as an articulate and passionate advocate of human rights. She served as United Nations special ambassador for the elimination of FGM. She has since established the Desert Flower Foundation to advance women’s rights in bltadwin.ru: HarperCollins Publishers.  · 5. . This memoir explores the life of Waris Dirie, recognized by many for her work as a model, and by others for her advocacy for human rights and a battle against female genital mutilation. The reader follows her from her early life as a nomad in the deserts of Somalia, to her difficult and sometimes dangerous journey to Mogadishu and eventually bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.

Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller. Published Geography. Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad is an autobiographical book written by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published in about the life of Somali model, Waris Dirie. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز پانزدهم ماه آگوست سال میلادی. At the turn of the century, Dirie retired from modeling to focus on activism. She founded the Desert Dawn Foundation () to raise funds for Somalian clinics and schools as well as the Waris Dirie Foundation () to advocate for the abolition of FGM. In the Waris Dirie Foundation was renamed the Desert Flower Foundation.

Desert flower: the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad. by. Dirie, Waris. Publication date. Topics. Dirie, Waris, Women social reformers -- Somalia -- Biography, Women -- Political activity -- Somalia -- Biography, Women's rights -- Somalia, Models (Persons) -- Somalia -- Biography, Models (Persons), Women -- Political activity, Women social reformers, Women's rights, Vrouwen, Circumcisie, African American women legislators United States Biography, Women social reformers Somalia. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story. 5. . This memoir explores the life of Waris Dirie, recognized by many for her work as a model, and by others for her advocacy for human rights and a battle against female genital mutilation. The reader follows her from her early life as a nomad in the deserts of Somalia, to her difficult and sometimes dangerous journey to Mogadishu and eventually London.