“Wandering through the labyrinth of thoughts, a vision sprouts, as small as a seed, waiting to be nurtured and bloom”.

This story is the reflection of a dream that lived in my heart, lived in my head, and occupied my imagination waiting to be unlocked. It's a story I think every girl could relate to.

Once upon a time, I was a young girl with hopes and dreams, fresh and exciting. My love for music and art was bright and contagious. I would spend hours in my father's car, listening to music, humming along to the tune, singing every word. I felt content in my little haven.

Little did I know that my love for music and art would always be compromised at school sometimes for a math class, sometimes for a science project. Every time I had to give up my music and art classes, I made room in my own schedule to teach myself instead. I never let the idea of defeat take over. I would sketch buildings, chairs, and furniture, over and over, chasing something close to perfection.

Then I attended a spring show for architecture students, and I knew I had heard my calling. The desire to design innovative pieces and craft functional spaces took over everything.

Full of dreams and passion, I grew up into a woman with a strong will, ready to walk a challenging path. I had a mission: to make a name for myself as a successful interior architect. Stepping into a male-dominated industry was never an easy decision, but I chose to live the dream I had daydreamed about for years.

I pursued my MFA in Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and that's where I first fell in love with this city long before I knew I'd one day call it home again. But my path first led me back to Ramallah, where in 2014 I founded WA Interior Design from the ground up. Starting from scratch, and leaving a lasting impression on my own terms, meant years of hard work, hurdles, and hunger.

Slowly, project by project, I built a name for myself as one of the most recognized interior designers in Palestine, almost entirely through word of mouth, which to this day is the kind of trust I value most. I specialized in high-end residential and restaurant design, drawn to spaces where function and atmosphere have to work in perfect harmony. Alongside my studio, I spent years teaching as a part-time lecturer at Birzeit University, guiding architecture and design students through conceptual thinking, technical drawing, and the discipline it takes to turn an idea into a real space. Mentoring the next generation became as much a part of my identity as designing itself.

My time serving on Ramallah's city council shaped me too, in ways I didn't expect it would show up in my design work. It's where I learned to think about space not just aesthetically, but socially and environmentally how a room, a building, or a neighborhood affects the people who live inside it, and the community around it. That awareness has stayed with me in every project since.

In 2023, I moved back to San Francisco and started over again, in a sense. I had built a reputation in Palestine that took a decade to earn, and now I was building it here, one relationship and one project at a time, trying to bridge the two worlds I come from. It's a different kind of challenge than the one I faced starting out, but it's driven by the same conviction: that attention to detail and honest, considered design speak for themselves, no matter where you're standing.

Leaving my mark was never about being the loudest voice in the room. It was about standing apart through the work itself, bespoke designs, conceptual depth, and a refusal to let a space feel generic. I hope my path, from a girl sketching furniture in the backseat of her father's car to a woman rebuilding her studio on a new continent, stands as a testament to the young girls and women out there trying to manage everything at once, all at the same time.

My dream and my sheer dedication gave me the strength to make the impossible a reality twice now, in two different countries. Today, I'm building WA Interior Design here in the Bay Area, working toward the same thing I always have: spaces that don't just look good, but genuinely enhance the lives of the people who live in them.