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Hi! I’m Alya, I’m an Egyptian-born, London-raised writer and producer, and the bestselling author of The Greater Freedom.

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For various reasons, I never really merged my worlds before. Mainly, I realise, because it felt safer, somehow, to keep them separate; to keep the versions of myself separate. What kind of cognitive dissonance would I have to master to be both versio
"We are all Mia Khalifa. And not just in the tongue-in-cheek way that the world’s arguably most notorious brown woman references, in the bio of her 27.6 million-strong Instagram account: “Are you even a brown girl with glasses if you
You are the sum of what you eat, what you read, what you watch, what you listen to & etc, and as such I am always very conscious of what I'm engaging with. I love seeing other people's picks and putting together my recommendations of the things t
Both, not neither. From celebrating life and successes with the homies to hermit-ing & working & eating clean in the sun, grateful this month and always to have two homes through which to build (and rest) and grow 🙏🏼🧿
Eid Mubarak ❤️❤️❤️ I hope this past month brought you what you need 🙏🏼❤️ This Ramadan has been an interesting one for me. Because of some health issues (nothing too major alhamdullillah) I've had to make some huge lifestyle changes - across the b
slowly, & then all at once ~ lifelately ✨
Very cool to see how diverse the cast is for the new Barbie movie and yet that it has no Arabs is WILD and wildly offensive and also sadly no longer surprising. New reports via @menaadvocacy have found that the percentage of Arabs represented in th
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