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Sep 2020
1h 15m

That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Gr...

Elia Ayoub
About this episode

This is a conversation with Hamed Sinno, lead singer of the Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila.

We spoke about the September 2017 concert in Cairo, Sarah Hegazi, mental health, and growing up queer in Lebanon - and everything in between.

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