Yasmine Hamdan

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

— Yasmine Hamdan

It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

— Yasmine Hamdan

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

— Yasmine Hamdan

My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

— Yasmine Hamdan

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.

— Yasmine Hamdan

We all have femininity in us.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always…

— Yasmine Hamdan

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Music liberated me.

— Yasmine Hamdan

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to…

— Yasmine Hamdan