Rahim AlHaj is re-imagining Iraq for the Western imagination. The renowned oud player, composer, two-time Grammy nominee and 2009 United States Artists fellow says he is using his music to bring Iraqi ...

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 ...

Naseer Shamma (Arabic ,نصير شمة), is a renowned Arab Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a village on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, ...

oud player, and composer. He has performed numerous concerts across the Arab and international world and composed music for films, plays, and TV series. Born in 1963 in Kut, Iraq, Shamma graduated ...