#interview: 2017

“The first born son of a Flemish, anthropologist mother and an Egyptian, event and sales man father who met in the West-African Republic of Guinee, 20-year-old Tamino Moharam Fouad’s first artistic love was theatre. ‘It’s must’ve been the first bite of the performance bug,’ he explains. ‘I always had an interest in translating feelings, emotions and ideas into something else, something beyond the casual state of affairs.’”

No. I think everyone’s beautiful in their own way. I’m sure there is a standard of a modern paradigm of what people consider beautiful. But I think originality and honesty is beautiful. So if you’re being yourself in whatever incarnation that is, being honest and true to yourself that’s the best and most beautiful person you can be. If you try to emulate anything then you’re already not being true to yourself.

I don't know who I'd be without music. It's saved my life over and over in so many different ways. (...) It's everything. It's my identity.

The most surprising thing to me about pregnancy is how much fear you all of a sudden feel. I feel like I prepared myself on stretch marks, gaining weight and feeling exhausted but I never thought that all of a sudden I would have this fear on becoming a mother and bringing my baby safety into this world. I had to tell myself to stop googling stuff and looking at yahoo news. I started daydreaming if I’d let my daughter attend sleepovers or how open I’d be with her. It’s crazy how I’m already protective of this little girl that I haven’t even met. I started second guessing myself if I’d be a good mom or not. I started wondering if I truly knew how to take care of an infant. I finally told myself to STOP!!! It’s hard but I know everything will be alright.