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 ...

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 ...

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - In his small workshop in the Iraqi city of Basra, Thabit al-Basri carefully bends a slim piece of wood over a flame before placing it over the pear-shaped oud in the making.

What's the quintessential musical instrument of the Middle East? Many of you might be quick to say it's the drum, more specifically the darbouka or tabla. But guess again. It's the oud. You've ...

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 ...

David Lindley — four parts imp and five parts virtuoso — is a certified monster on every stringed instrument you’ve never heard of. But recently, he said, he’s been playing a whole lot of oud. Well ...