“Growing up I didn’t feel like there was a ‘blueprint’ for me as an artist who is an Arab but wasn’t making Arabic music and so I would love to be that for young Arab girls by continuing to make music and staying authentic to myself,” begins Australia-based singer-songwriter, Wafia. Born to a Syrian mother and an Iraqi father, Wafia exhibits her identity through her music in subtle ways. She wants to make her people proud, she says, and does so from a place of honesty in her songs. The sentiments Wafia expresses are ones that many artists in the Arab diaspora feel as they create music. For lis…

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