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1、第1頁/共15頁WarisDirie 第2頁/共15頁 She is an African shepherdess. Be raped when she was young Now she is an international supermodel and best-selling author. She devotes herself to saving the African women. After suffering shes running out. The movie Desert Flower which tells the true story of Waris Dirie

2、touched and shocked the hearts of readers worldwide. Waris Dirie is considered as the first person who protests the horrific practice of female circumcision(割禮), the act of which makes a milestone in the history.第3頁/共15頁 It is the inspiring true story of Waris Dirie, an extraordinary, proud and brav

3、e woman whose bestselling biography Desert Flower touched the hearts of readers worldwide. Born in the Somalian desert in 1965, Waris Dirie rose from a poverty nomadic life(游牧生活) to the fashion catwalks of New York. 第4頁/共15頁When she was four years old, she was raped by a firend of his father.After t

4、hen she was forced to accept the most brutal and ignorant female circumcision which took her sisters life .第5頁/共15頁 As a desert nomad, Waris Dirie was sold to marriage at the age of 13 to a man old enough to be her grandfather as his fourth wife . So she fled the Somalian desert by foot.第6頁/共15頁 War

5、is trudged through the desert that seemed endless. She lay down in the cold wind during the darkness and had a break, she pick up the leaves to fill her stomach when the food was run out. She almost raped along the journey . Finally she find her grandma, and spent several years with her grandma.第7頁/

6、共15頁Then she worked for one of her cousins in Somalia Embassy in London , where she started a new life. 第8頁/共15頁A few years later She was forced to leave Embassy and encountered a ballet dancer ,and they become roommates . This grile helped her find a job served as a cleaner in a restaurant. Gradual

7、ly ,she found it incredible that girls were not “cut” (the rite of circumcision) at a young age there.第9頁/共15頁In this restaurant a prestigious photographer who want to search new faces spotted her perfect face with a nice silhouette .Then the photographer helped her become one of the worlds top mode

8、ls in the 90s.learn to walk第10頁/共15頁Wallaces pictures appeared on the prosperous city center billboards and fashionable magazines. First fashion show第11頁/共15頁However, circumcision bring her the physical and mental pain for the rest of her life. In order to make other women like her are no longer suf

9、fering this cruelty custom, she chose to show her wounds and suffering to the public. Waris Dirie is the first people to fight the horrific practice of female circumcision . In 1997, Mr. Kofi Annan the Secretary-General of United Nations appointed her Special Ambassador for the United Nations to combat this terrible atrocities .第12頁/共15頁She is a beautiful and brave flower of feminism(女權(quán)