#north africans
One morning, as Rana Abdelhamid was walking through her neighbourhood, an incident took place that would go on to shape her future trajectory. She found herself in a situation that many women globally are all too familiar with, to varying degrees: she was assaulted. A man grabbed her as was walking down the street, and attempted to pry her veil off. This was not an isolated attack, it was a hate crime. In that moment, the seed that would grow…