Model Halima Aden is styled by Anna Castan in ‘The Face of Hope’, lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia’s February 2020 cover story.

The collection of luxury looks from Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta, Brunello Cucinelli, Hermes, Valentino and more is photographed with the Maasai of Ngong Hills. Olivia Phillips conducts the interview: February Cover: Refugee-Turned-Cultural Icon Halima Aden Is The Hero We All Deserve.

If Kenya-born, Minneapolis-raised refugee model, rising star Halima Aden knows US Democratic Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, (her Congressional representative), they don’t appear in pictures together. The attitudes expressed about America by the two women are very different.

Halima Aden chooses to focus on the best of America. Ilhan Omar paints quite a negative image of America and Americans. Perhaps with all of America’s contradictions — both women are right.

AOC will break down the interview and Halima’s trunk-load of AOC articles in a few.