What does her family feel about the outspoken young woman’s rapping career? Her businessman father and social activist mother, along with extended family, are supportive but do have their apprehensions, says Ashraf. “Actually they want someone to speak up, only that they don’t want their own daughters to do it,” she laughs.

But Ashraf also wants to stick to tradition and plans to get married as soon as her family finds a suitable groom. ‘The only time you can ask me for a date is Ramadan’, reads one of the T-shirts she designed.”I have to think of the social implications of my decisions on my family. Yes, I am bound, I am tied. But it also gives me a certain level of security. It’s my freedom, it’s freedom from fear and loneliness.”

Ashraf treads a middle path, in which different worlds seem to converge. She is too liberal to be fundamental, but too conservative to be a rebel. She loved The Motorcycle Diaries, the story of Marxist rebel Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s journey across South America, but is waiting to be a homemaker and raise her own family; she is too orthodox to shake hands, but asks, in one of her T-shirt quotes, ‘A true Muslim is a mirror to another — aren’t you lucky that I am hot?’.

She sums it up: “I am not a radical, I don’t see myself breaking rules. I think I am a liberal, or a conservative liberal, if there can be such a thing.”