Middle east Quote by Yasmine Hamdan

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

— Yasmine Hamdan

World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no…

— Yasmine Hamdan

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I'm bored, normally, when I travel.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

— Yasmine Hamdan

'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…

— Yasmine Hamdan

With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I studied psychology at university.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead…

— Yasmine Hamdan

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

— Yasmine Hamdan