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Name: Desert Children

Author: Waris Dirie
Year: 2005
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Non Fiction, Biographies, Feminism

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ISBNs:
9781844082520
9781844082513
1844082520
1844082512

U.N. Special Ambassador Waris Dirie was born to a family of tribal nomads in Somalia. She told her story--enduring female circumcision, fleeing through the desert, and, improbably, becoming a top model--in her first book, Desert Flower. In Desert Dawn, she wrote about her return to Somalia and her work as a U.N. Special Ambassador against FGM (female genital mutilation). Her latest book recounts her investigations into the practice of FGM in Europe--it is estimated that as many as 500,000 women and girls have undergone FGM or are at risk. Here are the voices of women who have felt emboldened by Waris Dirie's courage.