“I’m not a symbol. I’m simply an Arab woman - or rather, a woman who wants to be free.” Farida Khelfa has spent a lifetime resisting other people’s definitions of beauty, of identity, of what a woman from North Africa could become. What remains is something far more powerful than any
label: a woman who chose herself.
Before the image, before the icon, there was a woman who simply refused to blend in. @rymsaidi decodes the woman behind the enigma.
Jewellery: @boucheron
Publisher: @asmaalfahim
Editor- in-Chief: @cynthiakattar
Creative Direction: @beyabouharb
Photographer: @dariasenin
Stylist: @joanne.m.kennedy.stylist
Make Up Artist: @christina__lutz
Hair Stylist:@dali_vrtina
Executive Producer: @georgemadeit
Production: @wemadeit.agency
Cinematographer: @gperimony
Movement Director: @kastet316
Gaffer: @carl.niklas
First Stylist Assistant: @am.rtz
Photographer Assistant: @camille__ela
Second Stylist Assistant: @h.rs.c
Retoucher: @kate_alex_x
#MADAMEArabia #Faridakhelfa
Bonne fête à tous les musulmans 🤍
En cette période, j’ai aussi une pensée profonde pour celles et ceux du Moyen-Orient qui traversent des épreuves injustes.
Que la paix vienne.
Eid Mubarak 🌙
Happy celebration to all Muslims 🤍
During this time, I also hold a deep thought for those in the Middle East who are going through unjust hardships.
May peace prevail
Eid Mubarak 🌙
