About the founder

Aya Abdelsalam

is a business administration graduate, and alumni of the IVLP program, it's a part of the US Department of State and it emphasizes women’s access to economic opportunities and empowering women entrepreneurship.
By the age of 10, she started being interested in fabrics, colors, and dressmaking when she was helping her grandmother in sewing and she started making outfits for her dolls with the rest of the fabrics remaining from her grandmother.
After working for multinational companies for several years, Aya Abdel Salam co-founded “Comoda” a furniture design factory, and within a few years, her showrooms achieved high sales despite the fierce market competition. Her success in the furniture business motivated her to pursue her childhood passion of creating her clothing brand. Bijar, her fashion brand which she launched in 2015, became an instant hit and was sold out.
Aya participated in the Goldman Sachs Women Program, which provides business education, mentoring, and networking to female entrepreneurs. The experience she gained from this program helped her to expand her business into international markets