by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Maeva Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495354907
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«Flor del desierto» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Maeva Ediciones in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
The work traces Waris Dirie's childhood in the Somali desert, amid games and family bonds, to the trauma of the mutilation she suffered as a girl. Fleeing an arranged marriage takes her from nomadic life to the West, where she becomes an international model and activist against female genital mutilation.
First part of Waris Dirie's autobiographical memoirs, originally published in English as «Desert Flower».
Recommended for those seeking true stories of overcoming adversity and wishing to understand the fight against female genital mutilation.
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).
