BEIRUT, July 23 (Reuters) - Lebanese church leaders have demanded the cancellation of a concert by Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila on the grounds its songs are blasphemous, leading the group to say it is ...

FILE PHOTO: Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila performs during the Ehdeniyat International Festival in Ehden town BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Byblos festival has canceled a concert by the ...

NEW YORK - It's mid-afternoon at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Hamed Sinno is running through a final sound check. His eyes closed, he sings a capella, filling the room with his rich ...

Hamed Sinno is the frontman of Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou Leila and an openly gay Arab American from a Muslim family. He reacted strongly to a crowd following the mass shooting at an Orlando gay ...

The band is scheduled to preform on August 9th in the context of the Byblos International Festival. Jbeil's eparchy intervenes objecting to the blasphemous texts of some songs. The controversy goes ...

Two weeks into his band’s second U.S. tour, Mashrou’ Leila frontman Hamed Sinno is still in disbelief that the group is here at all, let alone drawing packed houses. “It doesn’t make sense to me, to ...

Overlooking downtown Alexandria, popular Lebanese artists Mashrou' Leila hold two back-to-back concerts on Thursday 14 November on the rooftop of Cinema Rio on Fouad Street. The musicians energised ...

To Lebanese indie-rock outfit Mashrou’ Leila, the personal is political. It always has been; the group, whose openly queer frontman Hamed Sinno sings of homophobia and misogyny in his native Arabic, ...

On a recent breezeless afternoon, I met two young Saudi women sitting on the grass outside the Prospect Park Bandshell, in Brooklyn. They were wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the Lebanese ...

MONTREAL - Commercial pop music in North America can certainly be accused of being bland and uniform, but it’s a vibrant mosaic compared to the well-oiled pop machine in the Arab world. In Lebanon, ...