About

H.Sinno is a composer-performer, writer, and designer 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 writing has been published by ​Poetry Project, Frieze Magazine, The Derivative, Theater Magazine, ​Bard College & others. 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, leveraging myth, monument, and memoir as ​vectors of dismemberment and remembrance. Their solo debut, Poems of ​Consumption, opened at London’s Barbican Centre in July 2023, and is ​currently on tour in the US. Partially inspired by Mark Fisher’s ​Capitalist Realism, Poems of Consumption is a song cycle built on ​poetry published in Amazon customer reviews, covering themes like ​ennui, surveillance capitalism, heartbreak, boycotts, and orientalism, ​with compositions that juxtapose harsh electronica with the whimsy of ​a string quartet.