"I'm bored, normally, when I travel." — Yasmine Hamdan

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.