slave Alia, known also by her adopted spiritual name of Alia Al’Barakah, brings the unique magic, mysticism, and erotic culture of the Middle East to her BDSM lifestyle.

slave Alia actively promotes self-awareness and spiritual development within the leather community, volunteering her time and using her organizational and management skills at venues and special events where SM, spirituality and D/s relationships are the focus. she is a past Outreach Chair for Arizona Power Exchange, was the Co-Chair of Leather Leadership Conference IX (2005), has served on the faculty of the APEX Academy—Butchmanns Experience, and for the past seven years has served as a Producer and the Chief Financial Officer for Southwest Leather Conference. In addition, she has presented workshops, judged and emceed contests, and delivered keynote speeches at numerous community events, including Rio Grande Leather, Folsom Fringe, the Master/slave Conference, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, South Plains Leatherfest, Northwest Leather Celebration, Leather Leadership Conference, the International Ms. Leather Contest Weekend, Southwest Leather Conference, People of Leather Among You, Arizona Power Exchange, and Glendale Community College.

A practicing Shi’ite and Sufi Muslim, slave Alia is also an emerging activist in the Muslim community, where she champions religious tolerance and education, the modernization of Islam, and the rights of Muslim women. she presently resides in Los Angeles, California and has been in service to Master Skip since November of 2003 as part of her on-going spiritual and slave development.