CALL HER BINTI is what happens when two Arab women on opposite sides of the world realise they’ve been shaped by the same forces — the images we grew up with, the myths we inherited, the sisterhoods that held us, and the cultures that raised us.Hosted by writer Alya Mooro and MILLE founder Sofia Guellaty, the podcast dives into what it actually feels like to be Arab women living through a massive cultural shift. We’ve spent our lives navigating expectation, identity, visibility, and representation — and now we get to talk about it honestly, from the inside.Each episode is two women comparing notes on the narratives we were handed, the ones we’re unlearning, and the ones we’re finally rewriting for ourselves. Warm, sharp, funny, thoughtful — a friendship forming in real time.We talk about representation as something lived, not branded: how culture, people, stories, and society have shaped our bodies, identities, confidence, fears, and desires. We look at the influences that formed us, and how they continue to mould Arab girlhood today.We’re not here to gossip (okay, sometimes). We’re not here to lecture. We’re here to think out loud, laugh at the absurdities, and make sense of a world that’s evolving faster than anyone can keep up with. CALL HER BINTI —Arab womanhood and the forces that shaped us, finally discussed out loud. ABOUT THE HOSTS Sofia Guellaty is the founder and creative director of Mille World, a digital magazine that chronicles Arab youth culture and style currents. She has grown the Dubai-based business into a cultural platform covering art, fashion, beauty, music and travel scenes across the Middle East and North Africa, featuring bold storytelling and sharp commentary from underrepresented voices in both Arabic and English. Under Guellaty’s leadership, Mille has become a vital alternative voice in the Arabic media landscape blending sleek editorial vision with fearless cultural commentary. Beyond her editorial work, Guellaty serves as a board member of Fashion Trust Arabia and operates MILLE Creative, a Dubai- and Riyadh-based marketing and creative agency producing campaigns for global brands. She launched Mille in 2017 after serving as editor of Condé Nast’s first Middle East venture, Style.com/Arabia, while contributing to Vanity Fair France. Alya Mooro is a British-Egyptian writer and journalist whose work explores identity, culture, desire, and the interior lives of women navigating modern Arab and diasporic worlds. She writes across long-form essays, profiles, and criticism, bringing emotional depth and psychological insight to conversations around representation, belonging, and selfhood.Mooro’s writing is known for its intimacy and precision, blending personal narrative with cultural analysis. She has contributed to leading international and regional publications and is the author of the bestselling nonfiction book The Greater Freedom. Her work often interrogates the images and stories that shape women’s lives — and what it means to reclaim authorship over one’s own narrative.Alongside her journalism, Mooro is currently producing a documentary exploring representation and visibility within the Arab creative and fashion worlds, and is at work on her debut novel, which examines desire, control, and female self-making. She also curates The Greater Conversation, a widely read newsletter reflecting on books, culture, and the creative life.Across mediums, Mooro’s work sits at the intersection of the personal and the political, offering a thoughtful, emotionally attuned lens on contemporary Arab womanhood.
