PATREON

Hamed Sinno is a composer, writer, performer, and social justice advocate based in New York. They have been the lyricist and front-person for Mashrou Leila since 2008, engaging conversations around representation, free speech, gender justice, and sexual freedoms in the Middle East. H has a BFA from the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, and an MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College where they analyzed the vocal organ and digital vocality as sites of political negotiation. Their debut full-length opera, Westerly Breath, was in development at The Industry Los Angeles, and opened at the New York Met Museum in January 2024. Westerly Breath braids Egyptian mythology, and architectural history into a semi-autobiographical portrait of queer trauma, looking at dismemberment and remembrance across the vectors of myth, monument, and memoir. Their solo debut, Poems of Consumption, opened at London’s Barbican Centre in July 2023, and examined the overlaps of consumerism, mental illness, and environmental crisis through audiovisual accompaniment to poetry written in Amazon Product Reviews.