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Firas Abou Fakher

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He has scored several films, 'Kaleidoscope" by Lebanese director Dania Bdeir in 2014 which received numerous awards and most recently 'LOVE' by Lebanese Director Henri Bassil which won the 'Best Narrative Short Film' Award at the Moscow Short Film Festival in 2019.
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Firas Abou Fakher has given talks and lectures as a composer and designer at ING Creatives and has received the Areen Projects Award for Excellence in Architecture and the Omrania CSBE award.
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as a reaction to the lack of quality Arabic Music. He started learning the piano at age 20. Abou Fakher is a multi-instrumentalist and currently plays guitar, keyboards, bass, and percussion.
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parents. His interest in music started at an early age and he taught himself to play guitar at the age of 13. While studying architecture at the
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Abou Fakher composed the music and sound design for the VR experience AVRA, an installation experimenting with sensory virtual reality.
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lockdown of 2020. It was produced as a Shahid Original for the leading streaming service launched by
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Vessel Orchestra Exhibition alongside several notable artists including
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Abou Fakher is one of the founding members of Mashrou' Leila along with
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The Homemade Music of 'Al Shak': From Soundtrack to Spotify Playlist
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In 2017 Abou Fakher taught a graduate workshop at the
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Mashrou' Leila: GQ Middle East's November Cover Stars
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Mashrou’ Leila: The Soundtrack of an Arab Generation
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Index

Rudolstadt-Festival 2018
Rudolstadt-Festival
Lebanon
Alternative rock
Indie
Composer
Multi-instrumentalist
Producer
Architect
Mashrou' Leila
Arabic
BAFTA
composer
musician
producer
writer
Mashrou' Leila
Last Floor Productions
Beirut
Lebanese Venezuelan
American University of Beirut
Mashrou' Leila
Hamed Sinno
Haig Papazian
Carl Gerges
Hagop Kevorkian Institute for Near Eastern Studies
NYU
Middle East
Rolling Stone
GQ

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