Was Abdel Halim Hafez, Egypt’s most celebrated classical singer, actually a rockstar?With his crisp black suits and neatly ...

Shahd Hesham, an oud player and teacher, plays the oud at Arabic Oud House in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ...

Ehud Banai agreed to ask Shalom Hanoch, who is among the best Israeli blues players. Shalom agreed, and so we have these two ...

Muath Edriss is a singer, composer and performer. His professional career, in fact his whole life, revolves around the oud.

This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

These paths converge in Prunka’s Arabic music-meets -jazz project Nashaz, which features a coterie of New York musicians selected for their abilities to meld jazz and world musics, playing Prunka’s ...

In a tiny workshop on the roof of his home in a Baghdad slum, Farhan Hassan works in secret, lovingly curving wood and tightening strings to make his ouds - a traditional Arabic instrument. Only close ...

This oud player lives for music, steers clear of politics Wassim Odeh has performed with Arabs and Jews his entire life, and believes ‘good music speaks to everyone’ By Jessica Steinberg 16 November ...

Simon Shaheen, the much-admired Palestinian violin and oud virtuoso, brought his ensemble to the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Saturday night for a concert that fused traditional Middle Eastern ...

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 ...

THE Middle East is shattered. From the civil war in Libya to the killing fields of Iraq and Syria, the region has never been more divided. But amid the chaos, a few symbols still manage to unify ...