my guest today is mia khalifa.he was briefly a porn actress, garnering worldwide notoriety when she appeared in a sex video wearing the islamic hijab. after years of threats and insecurity, she's speaking out. what does her story tell us about the porn industry and 21st century culture? mia khalifa, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. by many measures, you are a very famous woman. for instance, you have, what, more than 16 million followers on instagram. but the origins of your fame lie in your brief involvement in the porn industry. is that hard for you to deal with? absolutely. after i left, i deleted my... well, i didn't delete my instagram, it got hacked by isis sympathisers and propaganda was posted all over it, so instagram took it down and i didn't recreate one for another year until i decided to kind of accepted my fate as the infamous former porn star and try to change the narrative. so i recreated an instagram account and tried to, for lack of a better term, become an influencer. because if you