Before they ever shared a microphone, Alya Mooro and Sofia Guellaty shared a timeline. They were internet friends first, the kind who slide into each other’s DMs with “wait, I thought only I felt this way,” then accidentally end up exchanging voice notes that could qualify as mini-podcasts. So when they finally met in person, it didn’t feel like a first meeting at all. The conversation clicked instantly. It was warm, sharp, a little chaotic, and so good that at some point they looked at each other and said, “Okay… we need to record this.” And that’s how Call Her Binti — a cheeky nod to Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast— came to life, with the first episode hitting Spotify this week.
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What they created together doesn’t feel like a “show” in the traditional sense, but like you’ve pulled up a chair to a long, sprawling yap session between two women who grew up with the same references, the same unspoken rules, and the same pressures, even though they lived on opposite sides of the world. That’s the heart of Call Her Binti: the realization that Arab girlhood shapes you in ways that feel strangely universal, whether you grew up in Cairo, Dubai, London, or somewhere in between.
The pairing also makes total sense once you look at their individual paths. Mooro is a British-Egyptian writer known for exploring identity, culture, and the inner lives of Arab and diasporic women. Guellaty, meanwhile, built MILLE WORLD into one of the region’s most distinctive cultural platforms, amplifying Arab youth, nuance, and complexity long before anyone else bothered to treat it seriously. Put the two of them together and a podcast like this doesn’t only feel natural, but inevitable.
Together, they unpack identity, belonging, visibility, and the weird little pressures no one ever explained to us properly. They talk about bodies, confidence, shame, desire, girlhood friendships, family expectations—all the things we navigate quietly but rarely get the space to articulate out loud. And somehow they manage to keep it light, funny, honest, and unpretentious, even when the topics get heavy. The newly-launched podcast is intimate without being invasive, thoughtful without being preachy, and relatable in a way that makes you want to pause every few minutes to exclaim, “That part!”
And honestly, it’s the kind of podcast many of us wish we had growing up. It’s honest, it’s hilarious, and most of all, it’s long overdue. Listen to the first episode below:
