Oud player Wassim Odeh has played at the annual Oud Festival more than once, but this year will still be a first of sorts — as he is appearing with his own band, swapping out a guitar and saxophone in ...

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 ...

Some of the finest Oud musicians in the world have gathered in Doha to enthrall music lovers at “The Fifth String” oud festival which opens today at the Cultural Village Foundation-Katara. The ...

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 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 ...

On an early Saturday afternoon in Glendale, musician Andrew Kzirian nimbly plucks the strings of his oud, its shimmering, nostalgic sound filling the air. Through the instrument, Kzirian pays homage ...

Iraqi-American political refugee and musician/composer Rahim AlHaj is one of the finest oud players in the world. AlHaj started playing the oud (pronounced like food, a pear-shaped, lute-type fretless ...

Oud is a very popular musical instrument in West Asia and North Africa, and the stringed instrument has a special place in the musical landscape of Qatar. The Qatari people have been showing immense ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...