“The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert” is her award-winning ... I could picture myself as the characters in the folktales I heard, which also helped develop my imagination.

Omar Razzouki gazes intently at the wooden box, marvelling at what might be the solution to the perennial water woes that he and other nomads like him across the Sahara desert face daily. More than ...

Based on Dirie’s autobiography, “Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad” (cowritten by ... especially when her character insists that she deserves a movie of her own.

a desert fox. When Sun is invited to travel to the Sahara by a local community who has heard about her book, she meets Kharouba, a Nomad girl of her own age, and realizes there may be much more to ...

Omar Razzouki gazes intently at the wooden box, marveling at what might be the solution to the perennial water woes that he and other nomads like him across the Sahara desert face daily.