AMMAN — The oud is said to be one of the most important historical and modern instruments in Arabic music, Amman-born composer and oud player Tareq Jundi said on Thursday, adding that, through the oud ...

Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma plays the oud during rehearsals at the Iraqi National Theatre in Baghdad on Monday (AFP photo) BAGHDAD — Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the ...

On Wednesday 6 April, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina celebrated the opening of Alexandria Arabian Oud House "I have been aiming for this project for nearly ten years, especially after I received many ...

Prunka became the next step in a loosely established tradition of fusing Arabic music and jazz, starting as early as 1958 when Thelonious Monk’s bassist, a New York native of Sudanese descent named ...

Joseph Tawadros gave an equally jokey and insightful musicological lesson when he and his percussionist brother, James, rejoined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra after the first movement of Mozart's ...

Saudi Arabia announced the establishment of the Bait Al-Oud Arabic Music Institute that aims to promote the region's talents and develop a new generation of musicians. Bait Al-Oud (“House of Oud”) is ...

A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ancient Arabian musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House for teaching oud playing in a historical area of the Egyptian capital ...

Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict. “When you are in your own ...

Baghdad (AFP) – Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict. "When you ...

Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music. Exiled in 1993 under dictator Saddam Hussein, Naseer Shamma ...