Two Palestinian graphic designers saw one of their tote bag designs go viral after it was photographed on a train in Germany's capital, Berlin.
In simple bold Arabic script, the text on the bag translates to "This text has no meaning except to scare people who don't understand it". [...]
It came from our reality because we are Arabs - Palestinians living in Israel. There's sort of a common fear or misunderstanding of the Arabic language here. So it was an in-your-face message to make fun of people who are scared of the Arabic language ... and are afraid of it. Because people who don't think much connect it directly to, you know what [terrorism]. [...]
In Europe now there are bad conditions with the fear of Arabs and terrorism, and Arabic is obviously connected to that in their eyes. So it's kind of the same thing Arabic language is being victimised and the whole Arab nation is being victimised and automatically related to terrorism, which is wrong.
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