About Bint Nas

In Arabic, Bint Nas (بنت ناس) literally means “daughter of the people” and is used to describe a “good girl” from a respectable family. This girl of good standing is perceived as chaste, worthy of marriage; someone who will not shock anyone with her behavior. A traditional Bint Nas resides comfortably within the confines that society has drawn up for her.

Our use of the term, naturally, is an ironic reclamation.

Our Bint Nas straddles paradoxes. Fed on fairy tales in childhood, she’s a daughter of Romanticism—but she has starved enough since to become a skeptic.

Her blooming imagination, tempered by reality, has shaped her into a cynical idealist.

She thrives in chaos. She’s fed up. She embraces the parts of herself society has told her to stifle: her messiness, her sensuality, her anger.

She grapples with the tumultuous gap between what she knows and what she was taught.

She is what she is, without apology: A new daughter of the people