Our Story
rawia comes from the arabic root — ر و ي — a root that carries two meanings.
one is narration. the storyteller. the one who passes things on.
the other is about water.
rawia, in older arabic, also refers to the water-skin, or the camel that carried water across long stretches of heat — the one people waited for, the one that quenched thirst.
we found rawi in the meeting of these two meanings — a boy who grew up listening to his grandmother narrate stories about the goodness, and the reward, of quenching the thirst of others. those stories stayed with him.
he grew up and people came to call him ar-rawi (الراوي) — and he became the one who went around quenching the thirst of others, the way his grandmother once described.
we bring that same idea today through rawia — sugarcane pressed fresh when you order, food made properly, and a place where people are looked after.
