Hamed Sinno: Queerness in/as Metaphor

Friday, May 7, 2021

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 

Online Event

12 pm New York l 6 pm Vienna

The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Hamed Sinno, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.

An analysis of several musical and literary texts by the band Mashrou Leila, as sites for negotiating the discursive boundaries of gender construction in the public sphere, and an attempt to frame the work within ongoing conversations about the limits of representation as a mode of political engagement.

Hamed Sinno (they/he) is a New York based musician, poet, vocal instructor, and social justice advocate. They have been the writer and front-person for Mashrouʼ Leila since 2008. They write and lecture about the convergence of music and social justice, and teach singing from their studio in New York. They have a BFA from the American University of Beirut, and are pursuing an MA in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College.

This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.

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