Creator, Designer, Photographer: Nayra Aly
Writers: Nayra Aly & Philip holm
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, and raised between cultures, Aly’s life unfolds through a series of vivid memories and reflections that traverse Egypt, Italy, the United States, and Sweden. Through poetic language and powerful imagery, she revisits moments of love and loss, fear and resilience, culminating in a return to Egypt, where the search for belonging becomes a path toward forgiveness and self-acceptance.
Designed as a bilingual book in English and Arabic, Longing for Belonging meets in the middle, two reading directions converging in a symbolic gesture of reconciliation and return. The first print run was in a limited edition of 100 copies and is currently sold out. The book is self published.