The New York-based Egyptian tells us why she didn’t “give a sh*t” about sexism as she was coming up in the music industry whilst she explains her experience guest curating an impressive line-up at Le Guess Who? festival 2023 in Utrecht.
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Writer Rand Al-Hadethi digs into Lara Chahine’s latest mixed-media project scrutinising women’s body politics within her home country, Lebanon, and the wider SWANA region, through personal archival imagery and street photography.
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The Palestinian-Irish playwright tells AZEEMA why she wanted to reimagine A Thousand and One Nights from the female perspective, whilst explaining her career-long devotion to subverting the notions of a ‘meek’ Arab woman and redefining the her place onstage.
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Ana Maria Monjardino explores intersectional approaches to abortion rights through the experiences of Black and Brown women and non-binary people in Northern Ireland and Ireland. Moving chronologically from the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, through the referendums of 2018 and 2019, to the present day, Monjardino considers how much has changed for women and non-binary people of colour seeking abortions since then and what still needs to be done.
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Reminiscing on being labelled a nuisance throughout her school years and times when her ADHD was staring straight at her, Tola Coker shares a hilarious and touching account of what receiving a late diagnosis has meant to her, both as a woman and being Black.
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Complicated mother-daughter relationships are often heightened between immigrant mothers and their daughters, where cultural conflicts add fire to existing generational and familial disconnections. After watching the short film Shaymaa – an exploration of the complications of immigrant parenthood – Italian-Egyptian writer Aya Mohamed meditates on her own tenuous but joyful relationship with her mother.
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We sit down with Saudi-born & LA-based singer Tamtam following the release of her single Insak, where she tells us how she wants to demonstrate the power of singing in multiple languages, her experiences of viewing time as a healer, and about her visions for how her sonic blueprint will evolve.
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BBC1 presenter and DJ Jaguar breaks new ground for women and femme inclusivity in the nightlife and music industry with a eye-opening new report, released as part of her Jaguar Foundation, which reveals the shocking lack of women and non-binary that still haunts and hinders the scene.
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Nour Regaya shares her first experiences with the word 9a7ba (whore) as a young woman and meditates on its usage in the Middle East to suppress female sexuality throughout her upbringing. Through is inversion, Nour has learnt to empower herself by redefining what the word means to her.
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Dania Quadri asks what the role of the brother, father and male cousin play in South Asian and Muslim households, exploring her own lived experiences with male family members and relationships which intend to be supportive but can lead to an instead oppressive alternative.
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In an exclusive for AZEEMA, the 23-year old emerging singer-songwriter takes us behind her new perspective on music-making, connecting Black feminism and Afrofuturism, with imagery infused in ancient African traditions.
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We were blessed enough to sit down with AZADI.mp3, the British-Iranian rising star blowing up on our screens in Channel 4’s Lady Parts, to learn about her latest single NAZAR and how she pays homage to her roots.
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Mariam Abood was raised by an ‘army of feminists’ and lost a brother during the war in Iraq. She tells AZEEMA how she navigates life in Britain, having to constantly explain her heritage, and how her identity has inevitably become political.
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