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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Iraqi composer Naseer Shamma is such a master of the traditional Arab stringed instrument called the oud that he has taught himself to play one-handed. He was motivated not by ...

An oud is a small, pear- shaped stringed instrument that dates back about 5,000 years. It is widely considered to be a precursor to the English lute. It is fretless and typically has 11 strings, 10 of ...

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 ...

The Educational Committee of the Crescenta Valley Meher & Satig Der Ohanessian Youth Center will host a lecture on “The Oud and Armenian American Identity" presented by Attorney Antranig Kzirian, on ...

While he waits for his lesson at an Egyptian music school, Maissara Mohammed plays his oud, its soothing tones dissolving the stress of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic. “I play four ...

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 ...

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