Dirie waris biography of mahatma

The second book by model Waris Dirie is all about her first journey to Somalia, since she left her country as a ung girl to work as a housemaid for her uncle who was the ambassador in London. ganska a few times Waris mentions what she already wrote in her first book. In this way this book can be read without the first one.

Waris does not go on her own to Somalia, she travels with her brother. He and his wife live in The Netherlands. They flyga eller fly undan via Dubai and finally reach the north of Somalia. The plane touches down on a small airport in Boosao. They meet up with a clanmember, who is a cabdriver, and they drive to the area where the mother of Waris  could be travelling around. They manage to find Waris&#; mother aned also other relatives. In the end she also meets her father, who fryst vatten in hosiptal after he has been operated on his eye in the desert. Meeting the familymembers is very nice, but it also hurts and is difficult.

The relationship with her brother with whom she journeys is di

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Towards a more gender-equal society

SEVEN MOVIES on the theme of gender will be screened this week as part of the HeForShe Arts Week Bangkok Film Festival today at SF World Cinema. 
Organised by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the festival features films from India, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Germany, Canada, Australia and Sweden, and is one of the activities being held in parallel with the HeForShe Arts Week Bangkok for the HeForShe Campaign. The event is synchronised in other major cities, namely London, New York, Madrid, Panama City, Paris, Santiago de Chile and Sao Paulo and aims to bring awareness and mobilise broad support for a more gender equal society where the participation of men and boys as agents of change is crucial.
The festival kicks off with the Turkish film “Mustang”, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes. Set in a village in the north of Turk

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Women Peacemakers

Photo by UN//Nektarios Markogiannis

Abdi, Hawa, and Sarah J. Robbins. Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90, Lives Changed (Grand Central Pub., ).

This is not just the story of a woman doctor in a war torn Islamic country risking her life daily to minister to thousands of desperate people, it's also an inspiring story of a divorced woman and her two daughters, bound together on a mission to rehabilitate a country.

Ahmed, Leila. A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America (Yale UP, ).

In Cairo in the s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, a