Celebrating its one-year anniversary, Dazed MENA releases an extra special cover story starring supermodel Bella Hadid. It’s a celebration of firsts. Bella Hadid’s first cover in the region in almost a decade and first DAZED cover, just as her beauty brand Orebella launches in the GCC. Released in two covers, Bella is photographed by Iranian-American […]
Sometimes, amidst the endless noise of media cycles, a single line cuts through and endures, entering collective memory not because it is sanctioned or placated, but because it distils the unbearable urgency of a moment. Bisan Owda’s “I am still alive” is one of them. At just 27 years old, Bisan has become one of […]
“It’s harder to watch the genocide from abroad,” says Plestia Alaqad, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist whose life was irreversibly changed on October 7, 2023, although she admits it feels selfish to say so. “When you’re in Gaza, in a genocide, as a journalist, at least you’re reporting, you’re doing something, you’re trying to help. It’s […]
