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 ...
Gilad Hazan wowed the audience at the Jerusalem Oud Festival with his genre-defying performance, blending Arabic music with house beats, rock, and jazz. Gilad Hazan is a virtuoso oud player. That much ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In collaboration with FotoFest and the Arab American Cultural and Community Center, celebrated poet Fady Joudah and renowned musician Rahim AlHaj present an evening of Arab poetry and oud music. Fady ...
Odeh has been playing oud since he was a teenager, having studied music at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He earned his PhD in music at Bar Ilan University, and heads the Arabic music ...
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 ...
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 ...