In 2016, Huda and her sister, Sana Alvi, 35, set up the travel company, The Girls Trip, which helps women in their late 20s, 30s, and mid 40s solo travel. “I don’t care what others think and I ...

so seeing this 17-year-old Muslim girl from a country in a similar state as mine, fighting for the rights of education for all, inspired me,” said Huda, a Somali-American Muslim woman.

Huda Beauty is now 10 years old, and Kattan says she hopes she has given inspiration to some women of colour. "I think back sometimes to that little Middle Eastern brown girl in Tennessee - there ...