They speak out for the first time and move us to action. It is an account of her internal struggles dealing with her success, the duality of her identity, her longing for her family yet her certitude that her belonging is somewhere else. Here are the voices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by Waris Dirie’s courage. Desert Dawn is more than Waris Dirie’s account of her return to her country. Waris Dirie was a victim once, but she never will be again.
At the moment, France is the only European country in which offenders are convicted and no European country officially recognises the threat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum. 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. DESERT CHILDREN tells us how she and the journalist Corinna Milborn have investigated the practice of FGM in Europe – they estimate that up to 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. In DESERT DAWN she wrote about becoming a UN Special Ambassador against FGM (female genital mutilation) and returning to her family in Somalia. She told her story – enduring female circumcision at five years old running away through the desert being discovered by Terence Donovan and becoming a top fashion model – in her book, the worldwide bestseller, DESERT FLOWER. Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia.
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