A bilingual magazine from part of the team behind Safar Journal, Al Hayya reports on the work, interests, and struggles of women in the context of Southwest Asia and North Africa.
The free people of the world are organizing, moving toward what many refer to today as the global revolution. In Gaza, the genocide pins the infinity of time, trapping it within the loneliness of each minute. This fight, and how we wage it, will determine whether we are worthy of the land’s forgiveness, and whether she will grant us passage into the future or consume us all, once and forever.
The fourth issue of Al Hayya focuses on Dreams of Liberation. It traces resistance as it takes shape inside the home, in the streets, across borders, and within the self. It examines how art, memory, and the rituals of everyday life carry defiance. It documents the weight and texture of struggle as both personal and collective.
This issue features a rare interview with Palestinian revolutionary and PFLP member Leila Khaled. It also includes an in-depth conversation with Françoise Vergès on decolonial feminism and cultural resistance. Photo essays by Maen Hammad, Amal Al-Nakhala, Nader Bahsoun, Sarah Kontar, and Hannah La Follette Ryan document life under pressure, grief, exile, and survival.
Also included is a conversation with Saliah, a DJ and producer shaping a distinctly regional sound within global club culture. A feature on the revolutionary archive of OSPAAAL (The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America) offers a visual and political history of global anti-imperialist struggle. Other contributions explore a personal reckoning on womanhood, exhaustion, and devotion in a world that keeps demanding more; the political implications of de-racing hair; and a poetic dispatch from Kashmir to Gaza, mapping pain, kinship, and the enduring will to be free.
As this issue makes clear, resistance is not always loud.
Beirut, Lebanon (Arabic and English-language)
First published 2022
Editor-in-chief: Maya Moumne
Creative director: Yasmine Rifaii
