Tag: 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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I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate.
Yasmine Hamdan
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It’s normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture – as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I was born in the middle of Lebanon’s civil war.
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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I had an Arabic background. but I lived a very scattered childhood. I didn’t belong to any one culture, which meant I didn’t have musical geographies in my head.
Yasmine Hamdan
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There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it’s really about coming together and creating bridges.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Women are a minority the same way gay people are.
Yasmine Hamdan
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All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I’m Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.
Yasmine Hamdan