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There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I'm not interested.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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Women are a minority the same way gay people are.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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We all have femininity in us.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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