I was able to pick out some of the Somali words in the story and apply it back to my work. I was able to connect with a lot of the traditions and ways of thinking in this book after working with my students.
I work with Somali refugees on a daily basis, so I found this story particularly interesting.
Desert Dawn is the story of that return and a testimony to the stubborn fact that you can love something dearly and yet not love all that it represents. She traces the roots of her courage, resilience and humour back to her motherland, and most particularly to her mother. The world of famine and violence, where women have no voice and no place - the very world that nearly destroyed her also gave her the tools to survive. Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision running away at twelve on foot through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage being discovered by Terence Donovan as she worked as a cleaner in London and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, Desert Flower. Desert Dawn is the story of that return and a testimony to the stubborn fact that you can love something dearly and yet not love all that it represents.Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia.
She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision running away at twelve on foot through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage being discovered by Terence Donovan as she worked as a cleaner in London and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, Desert Flower.Īlthough Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia.
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