
Desert Flower(2009)
The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.



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