Firas Abou Fakher is a composer, producer and architect based in Beirut. He is one of the founders of Lebanese Indie pop band Mashrou Leila as well as a film and media composer.

Mashrou’ Leila has been described as a bandwhose electro-pop anthems about political freedoms, race, and modern Arabic identity have challenged the status quo of the Middle-Eastern music industry. Their latest album ‘Ibn El Leil’ won numerous worldwide awards and charted at number 13 on the Billboard World Charts.

Firas’s composing credits include the films Love (2019), Les Saints de Kiko (2019), Meshkal (2016) and others. He has composed and designed the sound experience for AVRA(2018), an experimental installation on sensory VR, as well as participated In several panels and discussions about composition.

Alongside Mashrou’ Leila, Firas has been an artist in residence at NYU, giving a semester long graduate workshop; artist in residence at Greenpeace, campaigning for the use of solar energy across the Mediterranean, and has participated in the BLOCK 9 & BANKSY Creative Retreat alongside Brian Eno, Roisin Murphy and more. He has held public talks with Fred Moten at NYU and with the Narcissist at Concordia, and has spoken at both the Sciences Po in Paris and the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.

Firas’s solo work has explored themes of narrative and sound. At the moment, he is working on a range of conceptual communication tools as well as developing a multimedia project Voyager 2.0 as well as composing for 2 upcoming feature films and several shorts.