How May Calamawy’s Hair Loss Journey Inspired Her Storyline on ‘Ramy’
May Calamawy was 22 when she first lost her hair. She was in Dubai at the time and didn’t know what to do. She tried to look for answers online but she could only find forums that told her that her hair would never grow back. And so she cut her hair short and vowed to never look at forums about alopecia again.
Fast forward to 2020 and Calamawy is now a cast member on Hulu’s Golden Globe-winning comedy Ramy, in which she stars as Dena, the eldest daughter in an Egyptian-American family who often criticizes the cultural double standards between her and her younger brother, Ramy.
In the show’s second season, which premiered...