AlRaweya الراوية

AlRaweya (n.)

By Dania A. Moussa

AlRaweya in Arabic is the the female storyteller, and in our Middle Eastern region, women are the ‘mothers of all stories’.
Our grandmothers mastered storytelling since the beginning of time, using it as a way to survive the brutality of life, pass wisdom and morals to younger kids, and support causes they truly believed in. Fast forward to few hundreds of years, here we are, writing short films, poems, novels, screen-plays to locate our places in this chaotic world.

AlRaweya is my little space to highlight aspects of my intellectual observations as both: a writer and a woman living in a heated region filled with political conflicts, social debates, financial instability, and traumatic collective memory that often haunt the human in me, but also feed my inner writer with what makes a story worthy of telling.