Posts Tagged ‘ oud ’

Swanky TVs, soft drinks and exotic tobacco lure a young, mixed crowd to new-look cafes. Sweet fumes of white smoke rise with the cries of men playing dominoes in the teahouse, spreading an unfamiliar scent in a traditional setting. Change is wafting through the musty, masculine café culture of Baghdad, and fruit-flavoured tobacco is...
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Three Iraki refugees have released a 15 track album of peaceful and uplifting music for World Refugee Day. All proceeds from the sale of their music will be used to help other Iraqi refugees. Three Iraki musicians, Salim Salem, Abdel Mounem Ahmad and Fadi Fares Aziz, all of them refugees, have released a 15 track...
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Purely Abstract: Wadhah Mahdi next to one of his colourful creations. © UNHCR/G.Brust DAMASCUS, Syria, March 25 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency’s Damascus office has opened an exhibition of widely diverse works by 22 Iraqis, giving them a rare chance to display their art to a wide and...
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بدأ طارق حسون فريد العزف في فرقة اكرم رؤوف الخاصة بدار المعلمين العام 1953على آلة الكمان حتى اصبح اليوم من كبار الموسيقيين في العراق. ويعد فريد من الاساتذة الاوائل في جامعة بغداد الذي ناقش واشرف على العديد من الرسائل والاطاريح الجامعية وتخرج على يديه طلاب موهوبون في الموسيقى وله مؤلفات عديدة وكراريس متخصصة....
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