Yasmine Hamdan in Only Lovers Left Alive. Credit: Courtesy of Yasmine Hamdan In the hazy glow of a small Tangierian club stands Yasmine Hamdan, sensually rolling her hips, head cocked, singing in ...
A Beirut-born artist has an electro-pop sound that's both bracingly new and intimately familiar — at the intersection of sexy-cool electronica... First Listen: Yasmine Hamdan, 'Ya Nass' If you think ...
Yasmine Hamdan (Arabic: ياسمين حمدان'Ž; born 1976) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter and actress, now based in Paris. She became known with Soapkills, the duo she founded with Zeid Hamdan ...
The title track exhibits an acid house pulse. “Seven vows سبع صنايع” begins as a smoky ballad but quickly incorporates ominous washes of sound and echoing, gun-shot percussion. “Shadia شادية”, the ...
Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan is one of the most groundbreaking musicians in the Middle East — thanks in part to her work in the electronic indie band Soapkills — though she's now based in ...
In "Only Lovers Left Alive," the Jim Jarmusch film about sophisticated vampires living in Detroit, a singer performs a mesmerizing, yearning ballad inside a small club in Tangier for a crowd that ...
Quoz Arts Fest returns to Alserkal Avenue on 24–25 Jan 2026 with Numen/For Use’s TAPE, DAM and Yasmine Hamdan, plus films, ...
In the hazy glow of a small Tangierian club stands Yasmine Hamdan, sensually rolling her hips, head cocked, singing in Arabic about longing, adoration, and the pain of separation. Here, Hamdan is ...
Lyrically, in Arabic, the title track laments the increasing regularisation and ubiquity of the abhorrent: “Murder, is normal, Distortion, is normal… Looting, is normal, Manipulation, is normal, ...
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