by Waris Dirie, Jeanne d'haem · Little, Brown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844080083
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«Desert Dawn» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie and Jeanne d’Haem, published by Little, Brown in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Waris Dirie, born into a nomadic family in Somalia, looks back on a childhood marked by female genital mutilation and her escape from a forced marriage before succeeding as an international model. As a UN ambassador, she returns to her homeland to reunite with her mother and her culture, and traces in them the source of her courage and resilience.
Published in 2004, this book continues Desert Flower, Dirie's worldwide bestseller; in 1997 the author was appointed UN special ambassador for women's rights in Africa.
For readers of memoirs and testimonies about Africa and women's rights, and for those who already know Desert Flower.
Waris Dirie is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against FGM. In 2002 she founded her own organization in Vienna, the Desert Flower Foundation. She has won numerous awards recognizing her work on eradicating FGM, including the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2007).
