Not only do Ghassan Al-Youssef and Dina Abdel-Hamid play on one oud, they also share a philosophy of life that embraces peace and meditation as tools supporting mental and physical practice It was a ...

So recites award-winning Lebanese oud master, musician and singer Charbel Rouhana in Arabic from the repertoire of 12th century Sicilian-Arab poet Ibn Hamdis al-Siqilli. Rouhana then proceeds to sing ...

Al Saari wanted to show that oud instrument can play Bach, Vivaldi, Chopard and more Abu Dhabi: One would think that blending what time, cultures and generations kept separate for centuries would be ...

DOHA: Katara Cultural Village is set to open a special centre for Oud to promote the Arab world’s ‘king’ of instruments considered the most important in Arabic classical music. The announcement was ...

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 ...

Antoun Tawil, one of Syria’s last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing, said Agence France ...