68 Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan

I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

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

I studied psychology at university.

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.

I love Khaliji music; it's very inspiring.

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.

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.