Al Hayya Issue 05

Issue #5 is about media, and all the strange things it does to us. The people we worship, the women we punish, the bodies we scrutinize, and the stories we repeat so often we forget who told them in the first place. From Abdel Halim Hafez’s carefully constructed masculinity to the national scandal of Ruby’s dancing, from Sarah Joe’s complicated relationship with her own image to the unsettling experience of watching a genocide unfold between advertisements and Instagram stories, this issue wrestles with the increasingly blurry line between being seen and being understood. With contributions by Safia Elhillo, Fariha Róisín, Yumna Al-Arashi, Tamara Abdul Hadi, Khalid Abdel-Hadi, Bieke Depoorter and much more.