Renowned oud player and composer aims to preserve the Arabic style of music Sharjah: Sitting by a river near his hometown in Al Kut, Iraq, at the age of 11, Naseer Shamma could only see himself ...

The Oud is the leading eastern musical instrument. The modern oud and the European lute are considered the ancestors of the guitar. The oldest pictorial record of a lute dates back over 5000 years ago ...

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 ...

Sitting by a river near his hometown in Al Kut, Iraq, at the age of 11, Naseer Shamma could only see himself playing the oud every time he tried to envision his future. “I knew then that the oud was ...

The Egyptian-born Australian oud virtuoso may be the funniest man at the Aria awards – if only they’d ever hand him one during the main show When Joseph Tawadros finally won an Aria for best world ...

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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 ...

Michael Onsy with Albert Mansour, a popular oud-maker in Lebanon facebook / Michael Onsy You’ve probably heard it many times over and didn’t even realise it. But it accompanies just about every type ...

After eating Arab cuisine and listening to musician Ronnie Malley play the oud on stage, Northwestern’s Middle Eastern and North African Student Association shared Arabic-based poems with each other ...

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 ...

In the second episode of the "Bayt Al Mazzika" podcast, we sat down with Iraqi oud player Safaa El Din. He talked about his journey as a oud player and why he doesn't think reading musical notes is ...