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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. "

" When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones. "

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

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

" I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile. "

" 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 matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality. "

" I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge. "

" I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital. "

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

" I love Khaliji music; it's very inspiring. "

" Music liberated me. "

" When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening. "

" '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 who are more submissive, women who are in charge. "

" When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities. "

" I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that. "

" You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person. "

" My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon. "

" Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands. "

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

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

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

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