When Ford MENA set out to honor Arab American Heritage Month, they didn’t look for aesthetics or trends. They looked for truth. And they found it in Maraseel; a brand rooted in story, language, and legacy. This special project brought Arabic calligraphy, cultural values, and heartfelt representation to life in Dearborn, Michigan, and reminded us that when a brand is built with soul, it doesn’t need to ask to be seen. It simply is.
During my faith journey, I had always felt that my relationship with God is great yet something was missing, the full devotion. After a lot of research behind the idea of Hijab I understood that it was put in place to treat women as what they deserve: a human being with emotions and thoughts rather than an image or an object.
I paused in the hallway for a second and decided to go back to the safest spot in the house; on the couch next to my dad, to scroll through my phone in peace. This calm; for the most part, environment was shaken by one incident: someone knocked the door out of nowhere!
