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Mashrou\u02bc Leila is not a band\u02bcs name. It is not a proper noun per se; Mashrou\u02bc Leila is Arabic for \u02bban overnight project\u02bc lusting out a microphone, a violin, a bass, two guitars, drums and keyboards. It started out as a music workshop at the American University of Beirut in 2008, an open platform for students of architecture and design, somewhere to experiment with sounds and make things audible. Haig Papazian, Carl Gerges, Hamed Sinno, Omaya Malaeb, Andre Chedid, Firas Abou Fakher and Ibrahim Badr have enjoyed this sound fetish savoring its fa\u00e7ade of nonchalance and feeding on its lack of genre \u2013 sustaining their collective as Mashrou\u02bc Leila, an experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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