Al-Hayya #2

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Published in both English and Arabic, Al Hayya reports on the lives of women across the Arab world and beyond. This second issue is themed ‘Land and body’, creating connections bet ween women’s bodies and the land they live on, and looking closely at the systems of control exerted over them. In this issue: Finding freedom on the Tripoli-Beirut highway The Sierra Leonean women who have escaped exploitation in Beirut’s Kafala system Mapping the practice of female genital mutilation in Egypt Discovering sexual pleasure via medieval texts Show more