Desert Flower. The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad

„Waris Dine is a remarkable woman whose spirit is as breathtaking as her beauty. She lives a double life – by day she is an internationally famous model and a spokesperson on women’s rights in Africa – at night she dreams of home in her native Somalia. Waris ran away from her desert nomad family at the age of 12 when her father arranged her marriage to a sixty-year-old stranger in exchange for five camels. She escaped through the harsh Somalian desert and travelled to London where she was discovered by a fashion photographer. But she bore with her the harsh memory and real pain of an ancient custom: circumcision, administered to her at the tender age of five.“

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