While defining herself as a feminist, Mjalli says that her fight against harassment of women is unconnected to the #MeToo movement.
On fabrics of muted colours and on canvas bags from her BabyFist label, she places messages in English and Arabic inside drawings of flowers and other designs. It's only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli's collection, but they carry a powerful message: "Not your habibti", or darling.
Yasmeen Mjalli, 22 is "BabyFist" label founder. She sees the clothes as helping empower Palestinian women facing unwelcome male attention in public. In August 2017, she launched her first collection and a few months later opened the Ramallah shop to complement her existing online sales.
The goal, Mjalli says, is to create a community.
Using Instagram, free workshops in her shop and public places where she sometimes installs herself with a typewriter, she offers Palestinian women the freedom to express their feelings and tell stories they cannot share elsewhere.
All BabyFist garments are made in the Palestinian territories.
