by Waris Dirie · Maeva Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496231573
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«Niñas del desierto» is Waris Dirie's essay on female genital mutilation, published by Maeva Ediciones in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
Following her earlier memoirs, Waris Dirie denounces that female genital mutilation is also practiced in Europe, where five hundred thousand affected women and girls live. The author interviews victims and perpetrators, and analyzes cases such as parents who take advantage of holidays to subject their daughters to ablation and doctors who perform it in their clinics, to make visible a crime she considers against humanity.
Work from the Memorias collection, written with Corinna Milborn and translated into Spanish by Ana Deluca.
Recommended for readers interested in human rights, feminism and social denunciation, as well as for those who follow Waris Dirie's autobiographical trajectory.
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).
