The oud, a stringed instrument, is believed to date back to around 2350 BC to the Akkadian civilisation located in present-day Iraq. It went on to become a popular musical instrument during the old ...

Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Huda Asfour grew up in Tunis, before moving to Gaza at 14 where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West ...

When Taiseer Elias plays the oud, he strums intently, his face creased in concentration as he creates a dialogue of notes and sounds. Elias is a violinist and composer as well as a PhD in musicology, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Palestinian Ali Hasneen, 57, makes traditional Oud by hand inside his shop in the West Bank City of Nablus, on Nov. 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Nidal Eshtayeh) NABLUS, West Bank, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- "To mend the ...

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, a stringed instrument popular in the Middle East whose origins date back thousands of years, is a key element of classical Arabic music While he waits for his lesson at an Egyptian music ...

"I needed a better way to tune the strings on my OUD, a traditional Middle Eastern musical instrument," said one of two inventors, from Van Nuys, Calif., "so we invented the O U D STRING BRIDGE. Our ...

Pakistan, June 30 -- In a modest makeshift workshop tucked inside the crowded Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the soft sound of an oud echoes through the ruins of war.

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