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BOOK
Title Saving Safa / Waris Dirie with Walter Lutschinger ; translated by Ruth Martin
Author Dirie, Waris
Imprint London : Vigaro Press, 2016

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  392 Nour engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 276 s. ; 20 cm
Note BOKR: Ursprungligen utgiven av Little Brown
BOKR: Ursprungligen utgiven av Little Brown
BOKR: Ursprungligen utgiven av Little Brown
"First published in Germany in 2013 by Knaur Verlag" : 'Safa: Die Rettung der kleinen Wüstenblume'
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of the slums of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, was chosen to play the young Waris. The book and the film record many extraordinary things - from facing down a tiger, to being discov500d by a famous photographer in London - but it also tells the grim story of female circumcision, an ordeal that the young Waris had to endure. Saving Safa opens with a letter from Safa, now aged seven, who explains that she is worried that she will undergo FGM in spite of the contract her parents have signed with Dirie's Desert Flower Foundation stating that they will never have their daughter cut. Waris drops everything and flies to Djibouti where she meets Safa's father and mother who thinks her daughter should be cut to stop the community ostracising them. Waris brings them to Paris and to Vienna, they learn about the foundation and Safa's father finally comes round to the idea of working for the foundation as well. As Safa was saved from FGM through a contract with her parents, the Foundation believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughters
Subject Nour, Safa
Dirie, Waris
Female circumcision -- Africa
Female circumcision -- Social aspects -- Africa
Female circumcision -- Africa -- Prevention
Women -- Africa
Non-governmental organizations -- Africa
Kvinnlig könsstympning
Kvinnlig könsstympning -- sociala aspekter
Kvinnlig könsstympning -- prevention
Kvinnor
Omskärelse
Afrika
Biografi
Classmark 920.7
Lz Nour, Safa
Lz Dirie, Waris
Vgaa
Vnda
Mz
Alt Auth Lutschinger, Walter, author
Martin, Ruth, translator
Cover title Saving Safa : rescuing a little girl from FGM
Translation Rettung der kleinen Wüstenblume. Engelska
ISBN/ISSN 9780349005980
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