Desert Flower

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Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl 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. Best Read Desert Flower By Waris Dirie For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Wow this book left me speechless It leaves this lump in my throat and is at the same time very inspiring With her story Waris Dirie brings awareness to the terrible tradition of female genital mutilation in Africa Makes me feel so blessed to be living in a country where I an live a sel...There are three reasons why I chose to pursue Desert Flower by Waris Dirie Her book showed up as a GoodReads recommendation with a summary about the author overcoming tremendous odds in Africa I delved into the book and realized that I recognized the author to be an international super model and, once I started reading the book, its contents were so compelling that the text was difficult to set aside for even a little bit of time Desert Flower is an autobiographical account of how Waris D There are three reasons why I chose to pursue Desert Flower by Waris Dirie Her book showed up as a GoodReads recommendation with a summary about the author overcoming tremendous odds in Africa I delved into the book and realized that I recognized the author to be an international super model and, once I started reading the bo...brilliant book, I could not put it down once I started reading it.I read it within 24 hours, and found myself mesmerised by this womans story, and how she overcame obstacles that most of us wouldn t dream of, to get to where she is today.Without going into too much detail, she managed to convey the horror and trauma of being subjected to female genital circumcision, a practise that causesproblems, than it prevents, and convinces you, that as a woman, we have a duty, irregardless of where w brilliant book, I could not put it down once I started reading it.I read it within 24 hours, and found myself mesmerised by ...In my opinion this is a tremendously important book It is not just a wonderful memoir and a tale of amazing bravery of Waris Dirie, but also an detail account of FGM from the perspective of a victim The reason why I picked up this book was mainly because I wanted to learn somethingabout FGM I did learn something , the kind of information that is personal not just theoretical In addition, Waris does not only tell her story She tells the story of other women she had known that have In my opinion this is a tremendously important book It is not just a wonderful memoir and a tale of amazing bravery of Waris Dirie, but also an detail account of FGM from the perspective of a victim The reason why I picked up this book was mainly because I wanted to learn somethingabout FGM I did learn something , the kind of information that is personal not just theoretical In additi...Potresna prica djevojke koja je prosla put od somalske nomatkinje i pastirice do supermodela i ambasadorice UN a Knjiga nakon koje sam zahvalna sto sam rodjena tu gdje jesam iako divim se na hrabrosti i ustrajnosti Waris, iako citsjuci knjigu dozivjela sam neku vrstu kulturoloskog oka jer su mi nepojmljive odredjene prakse i nacin zivota u Somaliji i da se to dogadja u 20 i 21 stoljecu i nije fikcija nego stvarnost Sto se samog stila pisanja tice imam dojam da je imala veliku pomoc nekog ur Potres...Odmah, da ne bi bilo zabune. ena je mrak Svaka ast na svemu postignutom u ivotu Trebao bi biti vi e takvih na svijetu. Svima bi nam bilo ljep e..I hvala joj to me podsjetila gdje ivim Ponekad neke stvari stvarno shva amo zdravo za gotovo.A...Waris Dirie, , , ,.Readathon 2017 26 26 23 14I have no words.This is an autobiography of a very resilient and head strong Somali woman who up and left her desert nomadic clan She was to be betrothed, as a young teenage girl birth dates were not recorded in her tribe , to a much older man She was having none of that She trekked solo to Mogadishu and from there managed through relatives, to get a posting as a maid at the Somalia London embassy Eventually she entered the world of high fashion modeling Her Somalia narrative was intensely interesting, b This is an autobiography of a very resilient and head strong Somali woman who up and left her desert nomadic clan She was to be betrothed, as a young teenage girl birth dates were not recorded in her tribe , to a much older man She was having none of that She trekked solo to Mogadishu and from there managed through relatives, to get a posting as a maid at the Somalia London embassy Eventually she entered the world of high fashion modeling Her Somalia narrative was intensely interesting, but her adaptation to the West I found less so namely her climb in the fashion industry and her marriage to attain citizenship I found this book in full flight the author is on the move constantly, making the book suffer from a lack of ...

Desert Flower
  • English
  • 15 January 2018
  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • 0688172377
  • Waris Dirie
  • Desert Flower